> On Mar 6, 2017, at 8:36 AM, Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote: > >> On 06/03/17 04:20 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but in order to use atyfb you have to use >> the fbdev xorg driver. That's my main point. > > If you mean for Xorg to use atyfb, that's technically correct, but I'm > not sure how it's relevant.
It's relevant because using the FB driver is always a working fallback solution. >> I was talking about the missing DRM module as explained in the linked >> article on the X.Org wiki. > > The kernel module is only needed for DRI 3D hardware acceleration, for > which the needed Mesa driver isn't available in Debian (or even current > upstream Mesa) anyway. I know DRM is required for 3D acceleration. I was not sure if the driver would allow to be loaded with the DRM module missing. >> But in any case, using fbdev should always work. The "mach64" driver >> may be broken because it's more or less orphaned. > > Except for the part where Riccardo says that the same userspace works > with an older kernel. I missed that part completely. > Anyway, I looked at Riccardo's original post again and noticed that his > xorg.conf has options disabling all hardware acceleration of > xserver-xorg-video-mach64 anyway. In that case there's no benefit in > using that vs xserver-xorg-video-fbdev. On a sidenote: Please be more polite on this list. There is no need to be that rude and condescending. Thank you! Adrian
