Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 08:56:25 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>, x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xf86-video-ati-legacy port status Message-ID: <6675586c-dae2-39c6-2aba-bd66511d2d72@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <ab0ff124-14ca-83a8-8643-65a0a819cf42@freebsd.org> References: <20200527172918.GA874@doom.homeunix.org> <ab0ff124-14ca-83a8-8643-65a0a819cf42@freebsd.org>
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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. At a bare minimum, documentation should be updated to report what really works (not what should work but doesn't). 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. 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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