xf86-video-ati-legacy port status

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 2020-05-29 10:42, Niclas Zeising wrote:

> Unfortunately it is very hard to fix it.  There has been several changes 
> in how xorg-server interacts with the xf86 drivers, and the version 
> xf86-video-ati-legacy was based on was very old and not compatible with 
> xserver 1.20.
> If anyone can make xf86-video-ati-legacy work with xserver 1.20 we can 
> get the patches in, but I don't have the time to work on 
> xf86-video-ati-legacy myself.

Agreed, but it's really the non-legacy version that should be fixed.



At a bare minimum, documentation should be updated to report what really 
works (not what should work but doesn't).

As I said my integrated Radeon GPU does not work at all with new Xorg; I 
found another Radeon card laying around and tried that: it's better but 
still not there. Both are reported as "working" on the wiki.

Now, if I decided to go ahead and buy a new card, I wouldn't know what 
to buy: I could check the wiki, get a card which is listed there and 
discover I just wasted my money?

  bye
	av.

P.S.
BTW, I also have a laptop with CPU integrated Intel graphics: again, 
it's listed as just working, but I had to step through hops to avoid 
hangs and I still often get screen corruption.
So even if I decided to change the whole box and get an Intel CPU, I'm 
not sure what to expect.