Removal of legacy X.Org (aka non-WITH_NEW_XORG)

[Ronald Klop]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:25:18 +0200, Zenny <garbytrash at gmail.com> wrote:

> Even with new xorg, two things didn't work with my Radeon 3 head cards:
>
> 1. console switching did not work
> 2. hdmi audio did not work.
>
> Tried also with PCBSD, the same results. I gave up and installed linux
> in the same machine, both worked fine in addition to:
>
> 1. booting time is very fast
> 2. thermal management is better (usually the cpu temps are 31-40 in
> linux default installation whereas the temp remains in the range of up
> to 49-63 with all the tweaks performed.)
> 3. Power consumption is lower in linux than freebsd (76watts compared
> to 126watts till the xorg started)
>
> These are some of the stuffs that needs to be addressed despite
> freebsd being overwhelmingly stable.

Can you help addressing all this?

Ronald.


> On 10/20/14, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 20.10.2014 15:54, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>>> On 20.10.2014 14:16, Pete French wrote:
>>>>> What version of FreeBSD do you use?
>>>>
>>>> 9.2
>>>
>>> You're right, there seems to be something wrong. I'll discuss this with
>>> the graphics team.
>>
>> Koop Mast just committed a fix to the Ports tree.
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>>
>>
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