<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - Ditching xf86-video-ati in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94842#c5">Comment # 5</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - Ditching xf86-video-ati in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94842">bug 94842</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:Hi-Angel@yandex.ru" title="Hi-Angel <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>"> Hi-Angel</a> <pre>(In reply to Hi-Angel from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=94842#c4">comment #4</a>) > (In reply to N. W. from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=94842#c0">comment #0</a>) > > Hello, > > > > according to the discussion in the following Phoronix forum thread: > > > > <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/">https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/</a> > > 863332-intel-s-unreleased-3-0-x-org-driver-gets-more-fixes-for-dri3-present > > > > the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver included in xorg-server seems > > to be better than most vendor specific xf86-video- drivers. > > Problems mentioned there are specifically about xf86-video-intel. Although I > do agree — it'd be cool if everyone contributed to a single driver. > > > I am wondering: > > > > Then why not ditch xf86-video-ati in favor of xf86-video-modesetting? > > > > Regards > > I was just wondering alike, but about my local PC. So, just FTR, if anyone > would query the internet for the same question: upon research I didn't find > much difference between -ati and -modesetting. From the latest benchmarks I > found (April 2016) they seem to have comparable performance. Then I looked > an activity of both drivers, and found that -modesetting¹ has latest commit > 3(!) years ago, whilst -ati² just 4 days ago. So, for end-users: unless you > see problems, it's better to stick with -ati. > > 1: <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-modesetting/log/">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-modesetting/log/</a> > 2: <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/log/">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/log/</a> A correction: there seem to be a sound confusion: the official documentation for Glamor¹ points to old location of the code. One can easily get to -modesetting driver code by editing the URL as in "s/glamor/xf86-video-modesetting". I do also know that -modesetting was included into Xserver, which seems to be okay with those URLs, because they located in "xorg" part of repository. Now a plot twist: the documentation is outdated, and the repositories are not the place of the code nowadays. One can see the activity of xf86-video-modesetting here <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/log/hw/xfree86/drivers/modesetting">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/log/hw/xfree86/drivers/modesetting</a> I'm very curious to how to edit this "wiki", it's not the first time I see this site provides terribly outdated information. 1: <a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/">https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/</a></pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>