Also lost hw acceleration after Xorg update

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Mike Harding <mvharding at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was able to recover X acceleration by dropping back to libdrm-2.4.52_1,1
> - in my Xorg.0.log files, I see
>
> [    46.599] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
>
> with the newer libdrm, and
>
> [    43.241] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
>
> with the older libdrm.
>
> GIven that there are a bunch of files under 'files' for the older one,
> patching modetest, it's possible that this newer version has issues that
> are not patched.  I did try re-applying the patches (by copying the 'files'
> directory from the older libdrm to the newer libdrm) but that did not do
> the trick.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Mike Harding <mvharding at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Just to chime in, I did a ports upgrade/reboot this AM and X fell through
> > to the VESA driver.  I use svn to set the ports tree back to midnight
> > downgraded, I think, dri, libdrm, libGL and libglapi, and X acceleration
> is
> > back.  I have a HD 5770 board running on FreeBSD 10.0 as well.
> >
> > Maybe one of the patches for dri or libdrm is still needed?
> >
> > Mike Harding
>
> Probably too obvious, but are the ports built "WITH_GALLIUM=YES"? As far I
> can tell, it is still required for KMS support for AMD graphics. Two
> graphics wiki pages show that it is, but they also state that
> WITH_NEW_XORG=YES is required which it has not been since the Oct. 3 ports.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
>