[arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

[Eric Bélanger]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:09 -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote:
>> I'm having problems with the intel drivers and OpenGL. With OpenGL
>> sceensavers, I don't really know how to describe it but I can guess
>> what's on the screen but it's garbled.  With some OpenGL games, I get
>> a black screen.  I get the following message on the terminal:
>> get fences failed: -1
>> param: 6, val: 0
>>
>> I also get that message when running glxgears which works fine.  My
>> video card:
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM
>> Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
>> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated
>> Graphics Device (rev 02)
>
> Intel has no special interest in the 8xx drivers anymore, so I assume
> this is broken and will stay broken for a while.
> Can you try replacing /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i810_dri.so with the
> version from intel-dri in extra and test again? I might want to revert
> just the i810 driver for this.

Using the intel-dri from extra with the xorg-server and
xf86-video-intel from testing doesn't work. It makes all OpenGL apps
segfaults.


>
> The get fences warning is the same I get. This is because the kernel DRM
> drivers for intel don't have all the features the mesa DRI driver has. I
> hope this will get fixed with 2.6.29, but I'm not sure about that. The
> warning is harmless, but I can imagine people will file bugs for it the
> same way they did for the "Failed to initialize TTM, falling back to
> classic" messages.
>
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