On 11/13/2013 06:01 PM, William Harrington wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Igor Živković wrote: > >> On 11/13/2013 02:26 PM, William Harrington wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x7driver.html#glamor-egl >>> >>> This states it is only useful if using newer AMD Radeon cards with >>> Xorg ATI Driver. >>> >>> It is also useful for Intel devices as well. >>> >>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/ >> >> Thanks, fixed at revision 12210. > > I've also soon learned from another user that Glamor EGL for intel is > broken and doesn't work and SNA is to be used and is default. > > Someone needs to clear some things up so users aren't getting > confused. I don't use any intel video devices with Xorg, so I don' t > know. > The problem is, someone builds all the packages in Xorg thinking they > don' tneed glamor egl, then they end up needing it and go back and > have to rebuild all of the packages having glamor enabled, and then > realize it's broken and they should have used sna by default.
I just had to remove relevant xorg.conf part when I run into problem with radeon/glamor combo in the past. I'll test it with the intel card to see how broken is it. -- Igor Živković http://www.slashtime.net/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
