ATI Radeon 4330: success (was: Re: ATI Radeon 4330 with KMS: bad experience)

[David Demelier]

Hi, just wanted to tell you that it seems to work :-)

I'm now trying the vt(9) driver and see how it goes.
Le 5 mai 2014 10:09, "Jean-Sébastien Pédron" <
jean-sebastien.pedron at dumbbell.fr> a écrit :

> 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?
>
> > 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...
>
> > I've tried setting hw.dri.0.modesetting=0 in the loader.conf but it
> > seems read-only.
>
> Yes, at least in the Radeon case.
>
> > Kind regards (sorry to tell you that it was a bad experience :-()
>
> Don't be sorry, your report is needed so that we fix things.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>
>