Thanks. Would you say the freezing I experience is down to something wrong in the Dragonfly kernel module(s), or issues with the X driver itself?
As I said, the kernel didn't freeze and I could log in remotely, just X froze (clock not updating, mouse, keyboard unresponsive). Killing X didn't help. Neil. ---- On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:53:54 -0800 Francois Tigeot wrote ---- >On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 08:08:23PM -0800, kyuupichan wrote: >> Option "NoAccel" in xorg.conf seems to have fixed it as I've now been using >> X for 20 mins. 2D is noticeably faster than prior kernels; I assume that's a >> DRI / KMS advantage. > >With DragonFly 4.0, radeon KMS support is now enabled by default. The kernel >driver is similar to the Linux 3.8 version. > >The old userland 2D Xorg driver is still available under the name of >xf86-video-ati-ums if somehow using KMS is more trouble than it's worth >with a particular graphic chip. > >-- >Francois Tigeot >
