r300-based boards... Are they now officially a lost cause?

[Niclas Zeising]

On 11/04/12 12:13, ajtiM wrote:
> On Saturday 03 November 2012 21:20:55 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>>> You are using the default xorg in FreeBSD.  It is an old version, but
>>> for the most part it works.  Most notably it lacks support for more
>>> modern intel based graphics cards.  It probably also lacks other
>>> features.  The WITH_NEW_XORG knob was added to make it possible for
>>> people to test more recent versions of the xorg distribution.  The
>>> ultimate goal is to use this version, but the risk is that support for
>
> !!much legacy hardware is removed.  We need a lot of help testing though,!!
>
> I have an old ATI Radeon 9000 (r250) and I am usin default xorg in FreeBSD. I
> didn't try the "new" one because I am not sure if will work because as you
> wrote "much legacy hardware is remowed". But my Radeon 9000 works very good
> and fast on Mageia Linux with Xorg 1.13.0.

It would be very helpful if you are able to test this both with the new 
xorg that's in ports, and the experimental repository.  I don't know 
exactly where the 'cut' is, and I think even more drivers were axed in 
mesa 8.0.  It might also be that the driver works in X, but you don't 
get any acceleration, and things like that.
Regards!
-- 
Niclas Zeising