Re: Modular X broken

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Jimmy Johansson wrote:
>On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 07:59:32AM -0500, Bob Nestor wrote:
>> Something also changed in the base version of X.  Up until 6.0 I never had
>> any problems with X on either i386 or amd64.  Since 6.0 was released I've
>> been unable to get base X running on amd64, although it does work on i386.
>> I see the same problem in subsequent versions of 6.0 and even in current.
>> I've also tried different video cards with similar results.
>> PR 47331 describes the issues I'm seeing.
>> 
>> As a result I'm still running 5.1.2 because it just works.
>
>Hm, I'm running X with a ATI Radeon HD 4250 on amd64. I had some trouble
>using "Xorg -configure" and had to edit the configuration by hand after.
>
>Do you see _exactly_ the same problem with the radeon as you did with
>the nvidia card? I mean, does it also seg fault? I never saw a seg
>fault, I got "No usable screens found" or something like that.
>
>I'm going to buy a radeon 5xxx in about a week because the craphics card
>in the computer my SO uses has given up. I might attach my findings to
>your bug report.

A radeon 5xxx card will be a dumb frame buffer on NetBSD, you won't
get any hardware acceleration. You would be better IMHO looking for a
4xxx card on eBay.

The driver versions in base X have been chosen to be the latest that
will work with the DRI code in NetBSD, making modular X use later
versions isn't very helpful.

Robert Swindells