Re: drm-i915kms + x11-intel eats out all of the ram and swap but not with x11-scfb
Niclas Zeising <[email protected]>
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On 2020-04-15 11:30, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:38:25PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> A day or two ago I saw a post to this list stating that modesetting >> was not interesting because it did not support 3-D acceleration. > > I think I was quoting this forum post* by yuripv@, but now I see it's > from 2018 so it might no longer be accurate. Sorry for confusion. > >> At least on my Sandy Bridge system running the latest available >> software for FreeBSD 12-STABLE, 3-D acceleration works just fine. > > I'm currently trying to get X11 back to normal on my AMD laptop, and > without `x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati' port installed X server does not > even start, spamming me with "radeon: The kernel rejected CS, see dmesg > for more information (-16)." Of course, there is nothing useful in > dmesg. :-( > > Is "modesetting driver" only a thing in the Intel world, or it should > work for AMD cards too? > To my knowledge, it should work on all cards with a modesetting driver (meaning intel, various versions of the AMD/ATI driver, and nVidia, at least). AMD hasn't been as aggressive in deprecating xf86-video-[ati,amdgpu] as intel has been with xf86-video-intel though. This might also be an issue with drm-legacy-kmod vs. drm-kmod. Regards -- Niclas _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"