drm-legacy-kmod-g20181031_1 on 13-current

[starikarp at yandex.com]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:20:40 +0100
Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se> wrote:

> On 11/19/18 5:06 PM, AN wrote:
> > Hi:
> > 
> > I would like to thank everyone who helps to provide a modern
> > graphics stack on FreeBSD.  I have the following setup and am
> > having some issues with screen tearing/artifacts mostly in
> > mate-terminal windows.  I tried the suggestion at
> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/FAQ 2.3.1. AMD GPU, however it
> > did not work for me as X failed to start, maybe I missed something.
> > 
> > Below is relevent info, if more is needed please let me know.
> >   
> 
> Hi!
> I believe you can use graphics/drm-kmod to get an appropriate kernel 
> driver for this GPU.  Please follow the instructions posted after the 
> installation wrt. loading the module and so on.
> 
> When using drm-legacy-kmod you generally need to use 
> xf86-video-ati-legacy with ATI/AMD graphics cards.
> 
> Regards

Are xf86-video-ati-legacy drivers the same as we have now in kernel,
please? I like to try before FreeBSD 12 because no one *kmod and the
new ati drivers works on my computer (black screen) but on
FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE I cannot build them.

Thank you.