Joe "Floid" Kanowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I had the opportunity to test the xorg-driver-ati git "master" tonight. It does fix the nasty regression and probably works better than ever with the rs48x series. Unlike 6.9.0, the monitor is detected, it actually picks up the 1440x900 mode from the DDC/EDID data now, and life is good. Hopefully the xorg crew will receive, or have already received, the requisite documentation from AMD/ATI and that will help make the support for these chips a little more robust. (If I understand correctly, they've already received most of the docs for the AMD 690/RS600 family and later IGP chips, and those are newer chips with newer-generation graphics cores that probably aren't bitten by *this* particular SNAFU.) Anyhow, now that xorg has gone modular, building the driver went surprisingly smoothly subject to this short list of dependencies (above and beyond what will be pulled in by installing the usual xorg packages): devel/scmgit devel/autoconf devel/automake devel/xorg-util-macros In particular, devel/xorg-util-macros is less-than-obvious but the driver's versioning defines will be left hanging without it. You'll have to figure out enough git to be dangerous because there's no other way to obtain a snapshot (anyone want to add a 'Just give me a .tgz' feature to gitweb?). It's easy to overlook the proper git:// URI when stuck in 80x25, even though it's at the top of every xorg gitweb page. Here it is for anyone else searching: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati Of course, using the provided install script will put the drivers under /usr/local/lib/ and you'll have to move them into the appropriate places under pkg/lib/ manually. ... Again, this was xorg's bug and the 6.9.0 driver is the latest release at this time, so every xorg-using platform is probably impacted equally. I'm mentioning it here because "What hardware works?" seems to be a popular question, and if you're me, you might've thought this particular chip family was well-supported by now. At least it should be in the next xorg release... and I'll mark this as "done-cbb" until then. :) -Floid ---------- status: unread -> done-cbb _____________________________________________________ DragonFly issue tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <https://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue1161> _____________________________________________________
