Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 18:18:32 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd2013@kiwi-computer.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT for cairo 1.12 and 8.x survey Message-ID: <20140521231832.GA92183@kay.kiwi-computer.com>
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Not sure if you're still interested in the 8.x survey... All my desktop (and server) machines are on stable/8. I gave 9.1-R a try but it was severely impaired on all the hardware I tested it on. I rely upon functionality deprecated in 9.x and completely removed in 10 (see below). Due to the lack of recent KMS support for my Radeon HD 4850, I tried 9.x from this weekend. I needed VT(9) since the screen goes black with radeondms loaded. With dri1/radeon loaded, old x.org segfaults. With dri2/radeondms and NEW_XORG, the driver reports DRI version mismatch. I couldn't get graphics/dri and graphics/libdrm to build off the dev ports tree in 9.x. With xorg-server-1.12.4_1,1 and dri1 I have a somewhat working X server. However starting any VirtualBox instance panics the machine. Besides all of that, VT is very buggy: leftover artifacts, and I have to hit ^L after navigation and before/after any edit or the cursor is on the wrong line. That's almost worse than a completely black screen. I'm off to give stable/10 a try, but I'm not holding my breath.... -- Rick C. Petty ~~ FYI: 8.x functionality I still use: All my drives are geom_mirror'd and frequently a disk will drop (usually with a DMA timeout, but sometimes without any syslog message at all). This happens on _all_ my SATA/AHCI controllers, including: AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 ATI IXP700/800 nVidia nForce MCP61 nVidia nForce MCP77 Promise PDC40718 SiI 3124 SiI 3512 In 8.x and earlier, I can almost always (99.9%) get it working with: atacontrol detach ata<N> atacontrol attach ata<N> This functionality is missing from ATA_CAM. Any combination of camcontrol's start/stop/load/eject/rescan/reset commands do not work! In fact on some chipsets unplugging and replugging the data cable (which is especially dangerous when using multiple disks) does NOT work with ATA_CAM although it works just fine in 8.x. So ATA_CAM and 9.x is unusable for me. I've tried 9.2-pre with NO_ATA_CAM and even though I have AHCI disabled in the BIOS the disks show up as ahci anyway. A kernel built with "nooption ATA_CAM" and "nodevice ahci" detects my SATA chipset but no disks.
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