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

[David Demelier]

On 06/05/2014 21:31, David Demelier wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto:jean-sebastien.pedron at dumbbell.fr>> a écrit :
>
>     On 04.05.2014 18 <tel:04.05.2014%2018>: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
>

Hi guys again,

The vt driver and Radeon KMS works :-). The tty switch seems quick and 
working. However I fall into the known issues of vt which is that 
scrolling is terribly slow. I need to disable the kernel boot message or 
I increase by 3 times the boot time vs syscons.

I also have a second bug with vt(9) which is that switching from tty to 
X will keep the display of the tty until I move the mouse (like a 
refresh problem).

Regards.
David.