Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:14:14 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 231884] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati stops working after update to 18.1.0,1 Message-ID: <bug-231884-7141-DhnMcnNGNW@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-231884-7141@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-231884-7141@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D231884 --- Comment #25 from Niclas Zeising <zeising@FreeBSD.org> --- (In reply to Jason W. Bacon from comment #24) Hi! It's very hard to fix the regression in a good way. If we revert the chang= e, we will break support for newer hardware. This seem to be a problem with t= he legacy kmod, which only support old hardware, being incompatible with the n= ew xf86-video-ati. The new drm-stable-kmod modules support mostly the same hardware, as well as more modern hardware, and works with the new xf86-video-ati. There is already a port, graphics/drm-kmod that selects the appropriate kmod depending on FreeBSD version. It might be possible to create a legacy version of xf86-video-ati, but that would conflict with the current version, meaning it would be troublesome getting it installed. Trying to figure out, based on hardware, which xf86-video-ati port to insta= ll would, in my opinion, be very fragile, and probably only lead to even more support issues. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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