Fwd: Problem when building radeon X video driver on Freebsd-current

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, René Ladan wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> Forwarding this from a user of radeonhd
>>
>> René
>> ---------- Doorgestuurd bericht ----------
>> Van: "Vinicius Abrahao" <vinnix.bsd at gmail.com>
>> Datum: 21 jun. 2014 14:12
>> Onderwerp: Problem when building radeon X video driver on Freebsd-current
>> Aan: "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan at gmail.com>
>> Cc:
>>
>> Hi, how are you?
>>
>> Thanks for take care of this port. I use radeon here, and I having
>> some trouble with build the driver again. How can I figure it out?
>>
>> Here is the error:
>>
>> [root at phenx /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd]# make install
>> clean
>> (...)
>> (...)
>> ===>  Installing for xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5
>> ===>   xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5 depends on file:
>> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xorg-server.pc - found
>> ===>   xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5 depends on file:
>> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xproto.pc - found
>> ===>   xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5 depends on file:
>> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xi.pc - found
>> ===>  Checking if x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd already installed
>> ===>   Registering installation for xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_5
>> pkg-static: lstat(/usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd/work/
>> stage/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeonhd_drv.la):
>> No such file or directory
>> *** Error code 74Stop
>>
>
> Please do not use the radeonhd driver, which is old and unmaintained by
> the X people.  Instead, install x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati, and use the
> radeon driver from that.
>

Code long unsupported. Mostly non-working. Why hasn't it been deprecated by
now? Messages on this have been popping up on this list for at least two
years and it just keeps getting worse (more bit-rotted), but Radeon users
don't learn this until things fail.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com