On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, John D. Baker wrote:

> Yes, this works.  With a minimal "xorg.conf":
> 
> Section       "Device"
>       Option          "NoAccel"       "True"
>       Identifier      "Card0"
>       Driver          "radeon"
> EndSection
> 
> Xorg works very well.

To clarify, with the "NoAccel" option, basic operation works well.

Without acceleration, some highly-desirable applications of the
multimedia variety (mplayer in particular) are essentially unusable.

I didn't see a PR related to the i386 radeondrmkms panic, so I suppose
one is in order.

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