CFT upgrade to xorg 1.18.4 and newer intel/ati DDX

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On 09.02.2017 21:29, Theron wrote:
> On 02/08/17 20:25, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
>> On 23 Jan 2017, at 20:25, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>
>>> Do not expect newer gpu supported as this is not the kernel part.
>>>
>>> If you experience any issue with intel or radeon driver please try to
>>> use the
>>> new modesetting driver provided by xorg directly (note that fedora
>>> and debian
>>> recommands to use that new driver instead of the ati/intel one)
>> This is working well for me together with the drm-next changes from
>> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics. In fact, with
>> recent drm-next bits, I can even suspend and resume with my Skylake
>> notebook, something that has rarely worked before, and applications
>> that used to crash deterministically (e.g., Thunderbird when opening
>> an OAuth window) are now working fine. Overall, this is a very nice
>> experience!
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>> Jon
>> --
>> Jonathan Anderson
>> jonathan at FreeBSD.org
> I am using this same configuration on a notebook with Intel Skylake and
> it is working similarly well.  With the -video-intel, my system would
> reliably freeze up upon any operation seeming to involve lots of screen
> updates, such as window resizing and video.  With modesetting these
> issues are gone.  My system now runs reliably without image corruption,
> freezes, or panics.  Suspend and resume are also working.  The only two
> things that are missing are backlight control and GLX.  The error is
> (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
> (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
> So I suspect I made a mistake somewhere in building the ports and need
> to redo this.
>
> I am very happy with the progress that has been made; this now allows me
> to run FreeBSD as my primary OS as I no longer have to work in a VM
> within Linux.

Backlight works 
https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/issues/84