Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:49:45 +0100 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> To: Hannes <h2+lists2013@fsfe.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Radeon UMS and NEW_XORG Message-ID: <512D2DF9.5030403@daemonic.se> In-Reply-To: <512D2460.4020907@fsfe.org> References: <512D2460.4020907@fsfe.org>
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On 02/26/13 22:08, Hannes wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have just updated to NEW_XORG and with it received: > xf86-video-ati-6.14.3_1 > > This tries to do KMS and fails, which is expected behaviour. *However* > this version should still be capable of UMS. How can I force it to use > UMS? The Kernel and DRM are still capable of Radeon UMS, as is proven > when using old Xorg. > > On Linux this has to do with the Kernel advertising modesetting (or not) > and the Kernel-Parameter "nomodeset" deactivates modesetting (which is > then detected by the driver). How can I achieve this with FreeBSD? It should work (tm). What graphics card do you have? Hardware acceleration might not work though. Regards! -- Niclas
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