Re: Modular X broken

[Jimmy Johansson <jimmy%Update.UU.SE@localhost>]

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 06:16:48PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> Jimmy Johansson wrote:
> >On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 07:59:32AM -0500, Bob Nestor wrote:

[snip, problem description]

> >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.

Right, thanks for the info.

Regards,

Jimmy
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