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

[Zenny]

On 10/23/14, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <jean-sebastien.pedron at dumbbell.fr> wrote:
> On 22.10.2014 08:25, Zenny wrote:
>> Even with new xorg, two things didn't work with my Radeon 3 head cards:
>>
>> 1. console switching did not work
>
> Could you please describe your problem in more detail?

You may find this reported in some of the previous threads to this list.

>
> For instance, do you use the new vt(4) console driver, which isn't
> enabled by default?

Yep, I did enable it. Maybe I posted somewhere about this earlier to
this mailing list and tried to make it work for some three months,
failed and absorbed to gnu/linux again.

>
>> 2. hdmi audio did not work.
>
> HDMI audio isn't supported at all in our Radeon driver and won't be
> until we update it to match at least Linux 3.13 or something (I don't
> remember the exact number where HDMI audio was considered stable).
> Currently, we are at Linux 3.8.

Thanks for useful update.

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> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
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