On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 21/10/2014 13:40, Pierre Labastie a écrit : >> >> Le 21/10/2014 04:25, Kenneth Harrison a écrit : >>> >>> Is rendering method: >>> >>> Option "AccelMethod "exa" >>> >>> still the only non-Maxwell GPU/VPU acceleration method for 2D that >>> work for Nouveau outside of "glamor"? >>> >>> Tested BLFS-7.6 Xorg today with xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.11 on my >>> GeForce 9800 GT, and so far if glamor is used as the acceleration >>> method, the driver fails to load properly and the X-Server falls back >>> to the software llvmpipe driver. Has there been any word from upstream >>> about glamor working properly outside of the Maxwell series, or should >>> non-Maxwell users stick to exa for the 2D acceleration method for now? >>> >>> -Jim >> >> I am the one who last updated nouveau and added the test about glamor to >> the page. > > not test, text !!! > >> I have not been able to find anything about which cards support glamor >> besides the annoucements in the NEWS. >> The feature matrix (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/) >> has nothing about glamor. >> That's all I can say. I haven't asked upstream. >> >> Pierre >> > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Dully noted. Just a suggestion, but this may need to be mentioned into the book to use "exa" as the default acceleration method for non-Maxwell chipsets until "glamor" has been stabilized more and backported for other GPUs to avoid accidental confusion for a reader. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
