On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:26:09PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: > On 05/21/2015 11:17 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Some Xorg devs who work on Intel driver besides the > DDX developer claim to use UXA because SNA was too complex (almost as big as > the 3D driver) and I followed their footsteps since every new 2.99.91x release > something breaks and I have to resort building from git or patching the > released driver with at least one patch that got merged after the release. > OK¸so SNA is prone to break. > > I disabled SNA at compile time, it caused me too much trouble for too little > gain. > > > No idea what changed - any pointers to Chris's post(s) ? > > > > It was on irc. Thanks, that will be why google could not find it ;) To paraphrase: the default SNA acceleration is prone to break. I've obviously been lucky that it has worked until now in my builds. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
