CFT upgrade to xorg 1.18.4 and newer intel/ati DDX

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 24 00:06:14 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:55:16AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a call for testing for newer Xorg along with newer drivers: intel and
> ati.
> 
> The patch against the head ports: https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/newxorg.diff
> 
> Note that you would need to rebuild all the xf86-* packages to work with that
> newer xorg (hence the bump of the revision)
> 
> 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)
> 
> To use that driver:
> 
> cat /usr/local/etc/xorg.conf.d/modesetting.conf

erg should be /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/modesetting.conf
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier "Card0"
>     Driver "modesetting"
> EndSection
> 
> You need to first load the kms driver eiter via loader.conf or manually via
> kldload
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt of behalf of the X11 team


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