Also lost hw acceleration after Xorg update

[Mike Harding]

I have

OPTIONS_SET=CUPS LCD_FILTERING GALLIUM

(changed from WITH_GALLIUM due to some deprecation warnings).

The GALLIUM knob was already set in the dri port, I did not change it.

I built libdrm the same both ways...


On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Mike Harding <mvharding at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was able to recover X acceleration by dropping back to libdrm-2.4.52_1,1
>> - in my Xorg.0.log files, I see
>>
>> [    46.599] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
>>
>> with the newer libdrm, and
>>
>> [    43.241] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
>>
>> with the older libdrm.
>>
>> GIven that there are a bunch of files under 'files' for the older one,
>> patching modetest, it's possible that this newer version has issues that
>> are not patched.  I did try re-applying the patches (by copying the
>> 'files'
>> directory from the older libdrm to the newer libdrm) but that did not do
>> the trick.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Mike Harding <mvharding at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Just to chime in, I did a ports upgrade/reboot this AM and X fell
>> through
>> > to the VESA driver.  I use svn to set the ports tree back to midnight
>> > downgraded, I think, dri, libdrm, libGL and libglapi, and X
>> acceleration is
>> > back.  I have a HD 5770 board running on FreeBSD 10.0 as well.
>> >
>> > Maybe one of the patches for dri or libdrm is still needed?
>> >
>> > Mike Harding
>>
>> Probably too obvious, but are the ports built "WITH_GALLIUM=YES"? As far
>> I can tell, it is still required for KMS support for AMD graphics. Two
>> graphics wiki pages show that it is, but they also state that
>> WITH_NEW_XORG=YES is required which it has not been since the Oct. 3 ports.
>> --
>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
>> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
>>
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