[Bug 270509] Various x11-drivers/xf86-video drivers erroneously assume that no kernel driver will attach to graphics cards (need local patches)

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270509

--- Comment #52 from Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Lena from comment #49)
> The video chip GeForce 6150 on my motherboard was supported by x11/nvidia-driver-304, but not anymore. 
> I had to switch from nvidia to nv and from i386 to amd64.

 Well, that's one problem when you use hardware from 2004.

> I use KOI8-R/KOI8-U locale (as was standard for Russian and Ukrainian when I switched from MS-DOS to FreeBSD) instead of UTF-8. 
> editors/aee doesn't support Unicode, and to distinguish text files from binary files for migration to Unicode is quite non-trivial and error-prone. 
> VT requires Unicode locale.

 So you're not using unicode because of one tool that you use ?

>  I use 11 virtual SC consoles for everything text, including email (mail/mutt). You want to move everything into X, I don't. Don't force everybody to do everything exactly same as you do.

No I want to move everything that uses X to Wayland but that's another story :)

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