Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 07:34:22PM +0100, pk wrote On 2012-12-17 17:23, Walter Dnes wrote: snipped a whole lot... 1) Despite the TV being native 1366x768, it defaults to 1280x720, which is the first mode listed in the EDID. Fixed-pixel displays show best at their native resolution So I ran Xorg -configure and created an xorg.conf file, and forced 1366x768 resolution. And got no picture. I tried X again at 128x720. Then I used xrandr to change to 1920x1080, and it worked. Used xrandr to change to 1366x768, and it hung. From Xorg.0.log ... Any ideas? You can perhaps try to find out what the tv is telling X: x11-misc/read-edid ... if you haven't already tried it (you can also use startx -- -logverbose 6). The parsing of the EDID is already logged in gory detail in the logfile. You can also set your preferred resolution in xorg.conf as such: In Section Screen: Subsection Display ... Modes 1366x768 1280x720 ... EndSubSection After some spelunking in the X log file, I noticed the following [ 1789.561] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] Setup complete [ 1789.561] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: i965 [ 1789.561] (II) intel(0): direct rendering: DRI2 Enabled [ 1789.561] (--) RandR disabled [ 1789.566] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr /lib64/dri/i965_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or director y) [ 1789.566] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering [ 1789.566] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable [ 1789.671] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast [ 1789.671] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 lspci -v shows Kernel driver in use: i915 h. It wants i965, but it's getting i915. I took a look in /usr/lib64/dri/ to see what was and was not in there... [i3][root][~] ll -og /usr/lib64/dri/ total 30 drwxr-xr-x 2 216 Dec 18 01:57 . drwxr-xr-x 58 31024 Dec 18 01:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Dec 14 17:57 .keep_media-libs_mesa-0 lrwxrwxrwx 120 Jan 8 2011 i915_dri.so - ../mesa/i915g_dri.so lrwxrwxrwx 120 Dec 14 17:57 i915g_dri.so - ../mesa/i915g_dri.so lrwxrwxrwx 122 Jan 8 2011 swrast_dri.so - ../mesa/swrastg_dri.so lrwxrwxrwx 122 Dec 14 17:57 swrastg_dri.so - ../mesa/swrastg_dri.so There's the i915g_dri.so driver; what package provides it? [i3][root][~] equery b i915g_dri.so * Searching for i915g_dri.so ... media-libs/mesa-9.0 (/usr/lib64/mesa/i915g_dri.so) media-libs/mesa-9.0 (/usr/lib64/dri/i915g_dri.so - ../mesa/i915g_dri.so) I ran emerge -pv mesa, and discovered that mesa had been merged with USE=-xorg. This is what I get for starting USE with -*... http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/11/117774/2361934-double_facepalm.jpg I emerged mesa with xorg USE flag, and 1366x768 now works fine. One problem down and one to go. I had merged mesa with the intel USE flag. It also has i915 and i965 USE flags. If I can get the i965 driver built, I'd go from software acceleration to hardware acceleration. That's my next step. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?
Walter's Excellent Adventure Chapter 2 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:17:59AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote I ran emerge -pv mesa, and discovered that mesa had been merged with USE=-xorg. This is what I get for starting USE with -*... http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/11/117774/2361934-double_facepalm.jpg I emerged mesa with xorg USE flag, and 1366x768 now works fine. One problem down and one to go. I had merged mesa with the intel USE flag. It also has i915 and i965 USE flags. If I can get the i965 driver built, I'd go from software acceleration to hardware acceleration. That's my next step. Now things start to get *REALLY* weird. * Using VIDEO_CARDS=i965 in make.conf enables DRI2 hardware acceleration * But it requires the classic USE flag for mesa * The xorg USE flag also makes mesa require the gallium USE flag * Building mesa with *BOTH* classic and gallium works * And it runs in 1366x768 mode * And it runs *ONLY* in 1366x768 mode. xrandr does not change the resolution, notwithstanding the gazillion modes it lists * I went back to mesa without the xorg and gallium flags to simplify my setup * Again, it runs 1366x768, and *ONLY* 1366x768. But it does have hardware acceleration * And yes, I did try replacing the xf86-video-intel driver with xf86-video-modesetting. No X. * So the one change I've made after all this fooling around is to change the VIDEO_CARDS setting in make.conf from intel to i965. The net change is that... * the TV displays in native 1366x768 mode, and *ONLY* 1366x768 mode * X now has hardware acceleration -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?
Walter's Excellent Adventure Chapter 3 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:02:32AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote The net change is that... * the TV displays in native 1366x768 mode, and *ONLY* 1366x768 mode * X now has hardware acceleration I ran emerge -pv --deep --newuse world to make sure everything was OK. It wanted to rebuild xorg-server and one other lib after the changes in VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf. While I was at, I decided to throw in xvmc into my USE flags. After the rebuilding was over, I have video acceleration, but no 1366x768. According to the Xorg.0.log file the available video modes are... 1280x720 1920x1080i 720x480 1440x480i 1920x1080 1440x240 720x576 I've improved the speed of the video, with hardware acceleration, so I'll let things be for now. That's my HTPC machine. I'm now switching over my regular desktop (Dell Dimension 530 from the summer of 2007) to hardware accelerated mode. This one wants i915 drivers. I had stuck in an old Nvidia card, which was a bit of a pain... * I have to rebuild the binary drivers every time I upgrade my kernel * Flash bleeds through windows on top of a window with Flash * Flash colour tables are screwed up. People have blue faces. * The fix for the colour problem involved tweaking /etc/adobe/mms.cfg which fixed the colours, but caused Flash to crash a lot. With hardware acceleration enable for the onboard Intel GPU, I can now dump the Nvidia card. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: * X now has hardware acceleration I ran emerge -pv --deep --newuse world to make sure everything was OK. It wanted to rebuild xorg-server and one other lib after the changes in VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf. While I was at, I decided to throw in xvmc into my USE flags. After the rebuilding was over, I have video acceleration, but no 1366x768. According to the Xorg.0.log I've improved the speed of the video, with hardware acceleration, so I'll let things be for now. That's my HTPC machine. Still pretty ignorant of all these graphic settings. After using Linux for 9 years, now I have ATi, nVidia, and Intel graphic chipsets and don't know what to do with them. Prior to migrating to Gentoo last year I just installed the nVidia binary blob from their website. Now I've got radeon, nouveau, Intel on most comps -- nvidia-drivers on HTPC. I'm now switching over my regular desktop (Dell Dimension 530 from the summer of 2007) to hardware accelerated mode. This one wants i915 drivers. I had stuck in an old Nvidia card, which was a bit of a pain... * I have to rebuild the binary drivers every time I upgrade my kernel * Flash bleeds through windows on top of a window with Flash * Flash colour tables are screwed up. People have blue faces. * The fix for the colour problem involved tweaking /etc/adobe/mms.cfg which fixed the colours, but caused Flash to crash a lot. All that mess got fixed by switching from nVidia's binary blob to nouveau. With hardware acceleration enable for the onboard Intel GPU, I can now dump the Nvidia card. Can you give me some guide, or advice for this ... other than the standard http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml ? Any push in the right direction would be appreciated. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications Me, neither. I run Fluxbox and save my memory and CPU cycles for real work. ;) -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 04:59:47PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: With hardware acceleration enable for the onboard Intel GPU, I can now dump the Nvidia card. Can you give me some guide, or advice for this ... other than the standard http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml ? Any push in the right direction would be appreciated. The reason I discovered the solution was that I looked through the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. This file is usually 95+% boring technical detail. Near the top of the log file is a section that says... [??.???] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. I suggest viewing the log file with your favourite editor, and doing a case-sensitive search on the 2 strings (EE) and DRI (without the quotes). That was what tipped me off to the fact that... a) there was a problem with DRI b) what file Xorg was looking for that it couldn't find Knowing that info, you can put the appropriate entries into the VIDEO_CARDS variable in make.conf. Intel is a bit weird; it wants both intel and the major driver version. E.g. for my older desktop... VIDEO_CARDS=i915 intel ...and for my newer HTPC machine... VIDEO_CARDS=i965 intel Then re-emerge mesa. If Portage asks you to change some USE flags as part of the process, do so unless it causes problems. Once mesa is rebuilt, run... emerge -pv --newuse --deep world This will give a pretend run. If it looks OK, run it for real... emerge --newuse --deep world Again, portage may suggest changing some flags. I ended up having to rebuild xorg-server and one lib. After that, run revdep-rebuild. And if you're changing the card type, you'll have to make the corresponding changes in the kernel via make menuconfig, rebuild the kernel, and reboot. If you get lost, ask here. Copy the relevant error messages from your Xorg.0.log file to help track down the problem. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
[gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?
I have an Intel i3 hooked up to the HDMI input of my 50-inch plasma TV. The TV's native resolution is 1366x768. It was bought in the summer of 2007. I have 2 problems I want to fix as far as displaying stuff on it is concerned... 1) Despite the TV being native 1366x768, it defaults to 1280x720, which is the first mode listed in the EDID. Fixed-pixel displays show best at their native resolution So I ran Xorg -configure and created an xorg.conf file, and forced 1366x768 resolution. And got no picture. I tried X again at 128x720. Then I used xrandr to change to 1920x1080, and it worked. Used xrandr to change to 1366x768, and it hung. From Xorg.0.log ... [ 2826.586] (II) intel(0): switch to mode 1366x768 on crtc 3 (pipe 0) [ 2920.286] (EE) [ 2920.286] (EE) Backtrace: [ 2920.286] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x596016] [ 2920.286] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x199f49) [0x599f49] [ 2920.286] (EE) 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fb5eef2e000+0x10460) [0x7fb5eef3 e460] [ 2920.286] (EE) 3: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__select+0x13) [0x7fb5edc760e3] [ 2920.286] (EE) 4: /usr/bin/X (WaitForSomething+0x19f) [0x5937df] [ 2920.286] (EE) 5: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x38872) [0x438872] [ 2920.286] (EE) 6: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x27365) [0x427365] [ 2920.286] (EE) 7: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fb5edbb34bd] [ 2920.287] (EE) 8: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x26ec9) [0x426ec9] [ 2920.287] (EE) Any ideas? 2) Overscan... bleagh. It's rather difficult to start Firefox when the launch bar is off the bottom of the screen. It just barely pokes its head above the bottom. There's a bunch of magic that xrandr can work on VGA, but I'm using HDMI, so no go. And the TV does *NOT* have a VGA input on the back, regardless of what the xrandr output says. I've read about xnest and xephyr X sub clients that can use a smaller window within the main window. There don't seem to be any ebuilds for them. The one link I found for downloading the Xephyr source is a dead link. Any ideas? BTW, where's output from xrandr, for what it's worth... Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767 VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 920mm x 518mm 1920x1080 60.0*+ 30.0 1280x720 60.0 + 1680x1050 59.9 1680x945 60.0 1400x1050 59.9 1600x900 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 1440x900 59.9 1280x960 60.0 1366x768 60.0 1360x768 60.0 1280x800 59.9 1280x768 60.0 1024x768 60.0 1440x480 30.0 1440x480i 30.0 1024x576 60.0 800x60060.3 848x48060.0 720x48059.9 640x48059.9 59.9 DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?
On 2012-12-17 17:23, Walter Dnes wrote: snipped a whole lot... 1) Despite the TV being native 1366x768, it defaults to 1280x720, which is the first mode listed in the EDID. Fixed-pixel displays show best at their native resolution So I ran Xorg -configure and created an xorg.conf file, and forced 1366x768 resolution. And got no picture. I tried X again at 128x720. Then I used xrandr to change to 1920x1080, and it worked. Used xrandr to change to 1366x768, and it hung. From Xorg.0.log ... Any ideas? You can perhaps try to find out what the tv is telling X: x11-misc/read-edid ... if you haven't already tried it (you can also use startx -- -logverbose 6). You can also set your preferred resolution in xorg.conf as such: In Section Screen: Subsection Display ... Modes 1366x768 1280x720 ... EndSubSection X will automatically try the leftmost alternative first... Regarding the crash, I don't know enough about debugging, unfortunately. Have you tried rebuilding X and all it's libs? Best regards Peter K
