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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:44:34 +0100
From:      Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
To:        David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] xorg 7.7
Message-ID:  <513F0712.1040001@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAO%2BPfDe_aTfzUJOzu=YNs79sK7bTzZpe1dRrd0chH1TyrKGSjA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03/12/13 11:32, David Demelier wrote:
> Thank you very much, thus people that have still old radeon cards such
> as 4xxx that does not need KMS can just go on with xorg without
> WITH_NEW_XORG set right?
> Regards,

Yes, it should work.  I am running with an ATI Radeon HD4850 without
problem.  The only caveat is that you might not get hardware
acceleration, for that TTM/KMS is probably needed, even for older
graphics cards.
It works fine anyway, at least for regular desktop work.
Regards!
-- 
Niclas Zeising



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