Re: Radeon 7500: Why is NetBSD the only OS in which Xorg just works?

"Jonathan A. Kollasch" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 01:17:16AM +0200, Nicolás Colla wrote:
> Since the switch to kernel modesetting, the radeon driver has been *very* broken
> in some of the older Radeon graphics cards like my 7500. On Linux, FreeBSD and
> OpenBSD, after starting Xorg, the screen will inevitably start to flicker,
> making the system freeze and making you unable to switch to a different tty,
> leaving a hard reboot as your only option.

Do we even have drm on macppc?  We might still using the UMS
driver on NetBSD/macppc.

	Jonathan
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