ATI Radeon 4330 with KMS: bad experience

Marat N.Afanasyev amarat at li.ru
Tue May 6 10:38:00 UTC 2014


Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
> On 06.05.2014 11:23, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
>> so there IS a way to use UMS radeon with newer xorg-server?
>
> The last X.Org driver supporting UMS will probably work, but consider
> this a dead-end: starting with HD 5000, newer hardware requires KMS.
>
I know, but fortunately I have a 4550 available ;)

> We don't support this officially in the ports tree, because it would be
> a hell to maintain and test all combinations. We prefer to improve our
> KMS stability, as it's already the only way forward.
>
>> What are requirements for xorg-server-1.12+ati-6.14.6 working? old
>> dri and old libGL?
>
> I don't know. I would try the newer Mesa first (9.1.7).
>

I'll give it a try asap.

-- 
SY, Marat

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