r300-based boards... Are they now officially a lost cause?

Niclas Zeising zeising at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 4 19:59:39 UTC 2012


On 11/04/12 20:49, ajtiM wrote:
> On Sunday 04 November 2012 05:54:56 Niclas Zeising wrote:
>
>>
>> It would be very helpful if you are able to test this both with the new
>> xorg that's in ports, and the experimental repository.  I don't know
>> exactly where the 'cut' is, and I think even more drivers were axed in
>> mesa 8.0.  It might also be that the driver works in X, but you don't
>> get any acceleration, and things like that.
>> Regards!
>
> I will do.
> One question more, please: I did check which ports should be updated and
> portmaster shows me dri, libdrm, libGL, libGLU and xorg-server. IMO I need to
> update the other ports related to xorg too? Is it enough just the video
> drivers?

It might be enough, but I would rebuild everything that depends on dri, 
libdrm, mesa and the xorg libraries, just to be on the safe side.  There 
are probably a lot of library version numbers that change, as well as 
APIs and stuff.
Regards!
-- 
Niclas Zeising


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