CFT: Update to xf86-video-ati 7.5.0

Miguel Clara miguelmclara at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 23:15:19 UTC 2014


On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <
dumbbell at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 28.10.2014 19:40, Miguel Clara wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <
> dumbbell at freebsd.org
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> On 28.10.2014 19:18, Miguel Clara wrote:
> >>> I should had that after rebooting the laptop, when it starts, with
> >>> should start "slim" and all I see is a mouse in the middle and a
> "prompt
> >>> square" (not sure what to call it :P ) in the top left...
> >>
> >> The prompt square (I call it "text cursor" :) and the mouse are from
> >> vt(4), so it means the X server didn't acquire the display yet. When
> >> running Xorg alone, you should see nothing on the screen.
> >>
> >> In the dmesg and Xorg.log you posted previously, the card appears to
> >> have no CRTC or output connector:
> >> dmesg: No connectors reported connected with modes
> >>
> >> Does your computer have another video card, ie. an integrated one? Can
> >> you give more information about your hardware?
> >
> > Yes, it does, and Intel card.
>
> Ok, thanks to the code dump you provided, I found that xorg-server 1.12
> expects to have output connectors. This was changed in xorg-server 1.15
> to support connector-less cards:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=d1440783a7367ff0d0c47d256bbca3b3cf8a5034
>
> However, I see no change in the output connectors handling code in
> xf86-video-ati between 7.2.0 and 7.5.0. Therefore, I wonder why it works
> for you with 7.2.0. Could you please post Xorg.0.log with xf86-video-ati
> 7.2.0 installed?
>

It doens't work for the ati one... as I've reported in the mailing list
I've posted, but you say the connector behaviour changed in xorg-server
1.15, so maybe I should install that version and test!?

>
> --
> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>
>


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