Re: Xorg r128 driver errors filling "/var"

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, John D. Baker wrote:

> Taking 15-Dec-2014 as a starting point, booting a GENERIC kernel
> produces a working X server without DRI/DRM/DRM2 support since that's
> not been done for r128.
> 
> Booting my custom kernel based on GENERIC but with with drmkms support
> removed and the UMS r128drm driver added produces the errant behavior.

I happened to read pullup-7 #381 which notes that the newer Mesa explicitly
removes support for r128 (among others).  Perhaps that's what I'm seeing.

There was also a hint that perhaps that support could be restored.  If
so, that would be nice.  If not, well, I did manage to score a couple
of AGP Radeon cards from a thrift shop.

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