ATI Radeon 4330 with KMS: bad experience

[David Demelier]

On 05/05/2014 10:09, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
> On 04.05.2014 18:08, David Demelier wrote:
>> Hello guys,
> Hello!
>
>> However, for me (on 10.0-RELEASE-p1) it is not good news at all. First,
>> there is no 3d accelerated, glx info says rendering is software rasterizer.
> Did you follow instructions on the wiki about installing "KMS" ports?
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Installing_KMS_Ports
>
> In particular, do you have "WITH_GALLIUM=yes" in your make.conf?
Ah yes I've missed that one, I thought only WITH_NEW_XORG were needed, I 
will try with WITH_GALLIUM to see how it helps :-).
>> I would like to know how can I fully disable KMS since my card does not
>> require it and go back to standard UMS, because I don't want to go away
>> from KDE :-).
> I don't know what KDE requires exactly, but you could try to rebuild
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati after modifying the Makefile in there, to
> force the 6.14.6 version (remove the ".if ${OSVERSION}..." line and
> everything between ".else" and ".endif", including them). This will
> restore an X.Org driver capable of UMS.
>
> You may have to rebuild graphics/dri too, but I don't know in what way...
IIRC, it's libEGL which require new xorg which KDE depends on...

Regards,
David.