[arch-general] RetroArch refuses to go back into windowed mode after fullscreen

[Diego Viola]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Giovanni Santini via arch-general
>> <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> You should check if there is some difference between the two kconfig.
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>>> Il 09 giu 2016 11:08 PM, "Diego Viola via arch-general" <
>>> arch-general at archlinux.org> ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Diego Viola <diego.viola at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >> Hello,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I've been having this poblem for a while now, and I reported the
>>>> >> problem here, because I think its' a bug in the Intel driver.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93844
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The problem happens when I use retroarch and I play a game, I press F
>>>> >> to go into fullscreen mode, but when I press F again, the video is
>>>> >> paused and retroarch hangs.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> This happens independently of the core I'm using in RA.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> At the moment, the problem is present with the 4.6.1-2-ARCH kernel,
>>>> >> but if I compile 4.6.1 myself, the problem does not occur.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Is there anything the package maintainers can do about this? Or this
>>>> >> is something only the Intel developers can tackle?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> My system is archlinux x86_64, Intel i915 driver, Dual-Core  CPU
>>>> >> E5500  @ 2.80GHz desktop machine, 2GB of RAM. I was able to reproduce
>>>> >> this on my ThinkPad T450 as well, so I don't think the hardware is
>>>> >> that relevant.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks,
>>>> >> Diego
>>>> >
>>>> > Tobias, Thomas, any ideas on this?
>>>> >
>>>> > I've tried compiling 4.6.1 myself and then RetroArch doesn't hang
>>>> > after toggling windowed-mode from fullscreen.
>>>> >
>>>> > It hangs with the stock 4.6.1-ARCH kernel though.
>>>> >
>>>> > Diego
>>>>
>>>> It turns out with a clean (make defconfig/menuconfig) of 4.6.2 it
>>>> doesn't hang, when I used Arch's /proc/config.gz it hangs.
>>>>
>>>> By "it hangs" I mean when I switch from fullscreen to windowed-mode on
>>>> RetroArch.
>>>>
>>>> Diego
>>>>
>>
>> Yes, there are a lot of differences.
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
>> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/config.x86_64?h=packages/linux
>>
>> But who knows what exactly is affecting it?
>>
>> Arch uses CONFIG_HZ_300=y and x86_64_defconfig uses CONFIG_HZ_1000=y,
>> I doubt that has anything to do with it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Diego
>
> Tried recompiling the kernel with CONFIG_HZ=1000, that didn't change anything.
>
> Diego

I found that removing xf86-video-intel solved my problem.

Thanks,
Diego