Users of x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-legacy

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 2020-04-13 12:45, Niclas Zeising wrote:

> I don't know exactly what makes xf86-video-ati-legacy crash, but if you 
> want to get it working, I think that the best course of action is to 
> move it back to 7.9, and then try to backport just as much as needed to 
> get it to compile with xserver 1.20, but still work on drm-legacy-kmod. 

Thanks for the hint.
I'll eventually try this.
I'd be happier if I got non-legacy drm to work on my card, though.




> Graphics cards, even in the same series, can be quite different, 
> unfortunately.  This is one of the reasons this work is so hard, because 
> even if one adapter in a family works, it does not mean all of them does.
> Looking quickly at wikipedia [1], it looks like the HD4200 card uses the 
> 785G chipset, but HD4250 uses 880G (a generation later, as I understand 
> it), meaning they are probably quite different.  Yes, this is super 
> confusing.

Agree on the basic part.
However, the same Wikipedia page says 785G/880G, but code name is RS880 
for both... yes very confusing.



  bye & Thanks
	av.