On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 09:12:42AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > Hey folks, > > I would like to get your feedback about the current state of the base X11, > as there have been lots of threads about various issues and I have lost > the overview of what works in -current and what does not. > > We *really* need to branch netbsd-9 very soon now, and it is unclear (at > least to me) what should happen to the in-tree X11 version. > > - we have very obvious display bugs at first sight in xdm > - self hosting builds on 4 GB amd64 machines are not really possible > any more (due to LLVM runtime dependencies, which can not even be > disabled at build time right now) > - reports here (and on other lists) about display problems and success > stories have no clear winner (but probably due to me losing track) > > So what is you story/opinion: is base X11 usable in -current? If not, > what needs to be done or what hardware needs fixes?
FWIW, on a recent Dell laptop: [ 1.000003] cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0 [ 1.000003] cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz, id 0x806e9 [ 1.014344] i915drmkms0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 8086 product 5916 (rev. 0x02) With current I can now use stellarium and opencpn with hardware accelleration, which is a real improvement over netbsd-8 (stellarium now gives me 60fps, when without hardware accelleration it's a less than 1 - almost unusable). -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
