Re: modesetting vs intel in 10.0

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 09:17:35PM +0100, Mike Pumford wrote:
> On 30/08/2023 09:56, nia wrote:
> 
> > I think detecting the year of manufacture is too much of a hard
> > problem - there are simply too many new cards and I have no idea
> > about a "cutoff point" where modesetting starts being OK (if it
> > even isn't okay for any old cards at all - it should work as long
> > as DRM/KMS works AFAIK)
> >
> Well speaking as someone whose older card worked fine under 9 and now just
> ends up as a black screen with both the intel driver and the modesetting one
> on 10.0. I'm more interesting in getting back to having a working
> accelerated X setup. I did see the tearing on the intel driver on 9.x but it
> was never bad enough to make me try the modesetting driver.
> 
> For reference my now broken hardware is:
> [     1.008474] pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
> [     1.008474] i915drmkms0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Intel Haswell
> Integrated Graphics Device (rev. 0x06)
> 
> See kern/57268 for how my hardware fails.
> 
> Mike

OK, but this is not the question