Re: xf86-video-ati-legacy port status
Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 30 May 2020 08:56:25 +0200 Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2020-05-29 10:42, Niclas Zeising wrote: > > > Unfortunately it is very hard to fix it. There has been several changes > > in how xorg-server interacts with the xf86 drivers, and the version > > xf86-video-ati-legacy was based on was very old and not compatible with > > xserver 1.20. > > If anyone can make xf86-video-ati-legacy work with xserver 1.20 we can > > get the patches in, but I don't have the time to work on > > xf86-video-ati-legacy myself. > > Agreed, but it's really the non-legacy version that should be fixed. Agreed, Please post full dmesg, pciconf -vl, pkg info and Xorg.log somewhere > > > At a bare minimum, documentation should be updated to report what really > works (not what should work but doesn't). I'm working on an image that will test all that. > As I said my integrated Radeon GPU does not work at all with new Xorg; I > found another Radeon card laying around and tried that: it's better but > still not there. Both are reported as "working" on the wiki. > > Now, if I decided to go ahead and buy a new card, I wouldn't know what > to buy: I could check the wiki, get a card which is listed there and > discover I just wasted my money? > > bye > av. > > P.S. > BTW, I also have a laptop with CPU integrated Intel graphics: again, > it's listed as just working, but I had to step through hops to avoid > hangs and I still often get screen corruption. Same as above, without info on what hardware you have it's hard to help. I'm happily running FreeBSD 13-CURRENT on Broadwell, Skylake and WhiskeyLake without any problems. > So even if I decided to change the whole box and get an Intel CPU, I'm > not sure what to expect. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]> <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"