Ars Technica article

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

[ setting CC to a more appropriate -x11@ list ]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:43:00AM +0000, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> ...
> Short answer, because I'm on my phone... You shouldn't use drm-legacy-
> kmod, it is on life support.

Well, that's funny, considering that for many people, it is the only
DRM port that actually works.

> The drm-legacy-kmod radeonkms.ko module requires xf86-video-ati-legacy
> to work in menu cases,

menu == many?  Where is this requirement documented?  Many people had
reported having to use `graphics/drm-legacy-kmod' ('cause, well, nothing
else works) and radeonkms.ko together with `x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati',
particularly, in PR 237642* about the invisible mouse pointer.

> and that has been broken since the update of xorg-server, with no one
> stepping up to test my patches for it.

Wrong: both pfg@ and me did test those patches, as well as other people
who reported it on -x11@ list, with sad results unfortunately. :-(

> I'm using modesetting across three different Intel GPUs without seeing
> any issues.

Yes, lots of people apparently are happier with X11 server's built-in
"modesetting" driver rather than traditional xf86-video-*, but doesn't
modesetting drivers lack some/any 3D acceleration?  I don't see this
documented on wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics (and modesetting driver is only
mentioned in the Intel section).

./danfe

*) https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237642