xf86-video-ati-legacy port status

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 2020-06-02 11:12, Scott Bennett wrote:

>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2020-May/025989.html

>       Perhaps you posted your panic messages, and I missed them,

Link is above.





> but I've
> been wondering whether you actually get a panic screen with all sorts of
> kernel panic messages,

Yes: the system drops into DDB.



> or do you instead get a hard BIOS reset

No.



> in an attempt by the DRM driver to reboot your system?

Here I'm not so sure... I guess not, since what I get is "panic: page 
fault".



> The reason I ask is that
> the latter is what happens when running xorg on a Radeon HD 5770, and after
> a reboot I can see the final messages that were written to /var/log/messages
> just before the reset.  Those messages indicated that the GPU had crashed
> (bug #1).  The improper response by the DRM driver is bug #2/design flaw #1,
> depending upon how you view such things, although a design document might
> well resolve which sort of error was made.

I don't seem to follow you here.
Are those # references to some bug list?
Where?



  bye & Thanks
	av.