Re: xf86-video-ati-legacy port status

Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
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