I also have a current machine with one of those listed gpu. A friend got hacked on windows, I got them setup with a ryzen chip and no integrated GPU. Finding a supported gpu was a challenge but, those old drivers allow the machine to have display.
Please try to maintain the older drivers, thanks. Best, Owen On Sun, Sep 3, 2017, 18:03 David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 Sep 2017, at 06:31, Cy Schubert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the heads up Johannes. I currently have three machines that > each > > run ATI r128, mach64 and the last one an mga card. I normally use my i945 > > and i915 laptops (mostly the former) but on occasion I may fire up X on > one > > of the other three. Having a drm-legacy port in the tree would benefit to > > me. > > It’s been quite a while since I used any of these (though much of the list > is very familiar), but the last machine I ran with a mach64 card was faster > with the vesa driver than with the ‘accelerated’ driver (as I recall, it > was a 500MHz Pentium III). I suspect the real question is not whether > people have machines that use these cards, but whether they do anything > with them where they’d notice the lack of acceleration. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
