re: What to do with base X11 for netbsd-9 ?

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> >The functional issue is with the xf86-video-intel driver.  It does not
> >work on any of my amd64 systems using intel graphics devices.  (It does
> >work well on older i386 systems using real i82915 chips or ancient i82810e
> >device).
> 
> It seems to work on my laptop (Sandy Bridge graphics).

for me it works for many things, but not true type fonts in some
terminal programs.

the canonical failure mode is simply typing into "mate-terminal",
and you get garbage in the typed text until you press return.

the old (2014) driver does not have this problem.


.mrg.