Re: DRM removal soon
Yoshihiro Ota <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11 |
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:55:57 +0300 Greg V <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 8:31 AM, Yoshihiro Ota <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How does this impact VMWare users? > > I couldn't find much of documents. > > > > I run few FreeBSD versions on MacBook VMWare. > > > > Do we have a different driver for VMWare or go by MacBook's? > > > > I looked at dmesg of another laptop and that reports "Radeon". > > However, I don't find any "drm" in FreeBSD VMWare dmesg at all. > > I'm not sure which driver FreeBSD has been picking up. > > Hi, looks like you have not been using *any* GPU driver at all, just a > basic framebuffer (efifb or vga) and software rendering. > > Only the new drm-kmod includes vmwgfx, which should bring you GPU > support :) https://twitter.com/johalun/status/1056549585106227201 > I also got some private emails, too. Thanks for info. I gave up VMWare for this one and tried on 3 physical machines. All 3 machines I tried this time worked okay with ports drivers. I also found that running kldstat was the easiest way to find which of driver to use instead of dmesg. Hiro _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"