Removal of legacy X.Org (aka non-WITH_NEW_XORG)

[Zenny]

On 10/23/14, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <jean-sebastien.pedron at dumbbell.fr> wrote:
> On 23.10.2014 18:31, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Would you be willing to conduct the power test without the GPUs
>> installed? There may be something missing in FreeBSD and they may not
>> be clocking down when idle.
>
> Our Radeon kernel driver doesn't support power management. This feature
> was first added to Linux 3.11 (we're at 3.8) and was considered stable 3
> or 4 releases later.
>
> This means that, currently, the card's clock and voltage are the factory
> boot-time defaults. For most cards, they are low and the card has poor
> performance, compared to Windows/Linux. For a few exceptions, the card
> is running at its maximum, leading to high temperatures and fans
> spinning fast.


Yep, this sounds to be the reason of the problem, I guess.

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> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
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