CFT: Update to xf86-video-ati 7.5.0

Carsten Bäcker carbaecker at gmx.de
Mon Oct 27 19:58:56 UTC 2014


Works fine for Radeon HD 6850M.

Thanks!

Am 27.10.2014 um 10:26 schrieb Jean-Sébastien Pédron:
> Hi!
>
> Before updating xf86-video-ati to 7.5.0, we would like some people to
> try it out. The reason is that 7.4.0 was crashing for several users, so
> we want to be sure it's fixed in 7.5.0.
>
> Here's patch:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~dumbbell/graphics/ports-xf86-video-ati-7.5.0.patch
>
> To apply it:
>    cd /usr/ports
>    patch -p1 < /path/to/ports-xf86-video-ati-7.5.0.patch
>
> Then update x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati with your method of choice.
>
> What we're especially looking for is report of successful or failed
> startup of the X server. With 7.4.0, the server would crash during
> startup. But with 7.5.0, none of us could reproduce the problem.
>
> When you're finished, you may restore your vanilla ports tree:
>    cd /usr/ports
>    patch -p1 -R < /path/to/ports-xf86-video-ati-7.5.0.patch
>    find x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati -name "*.orig" -delete
>
> Thank you for your help!
>



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