On 2013-11-13 20:46, Igor Živković wrote: > 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.
I've just tested it and it works fine. It's allegedly obsoleted by SNA acceleration but I have yet to find official references for that. I'm leaving it in the book as an option. -- 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
