On Thursday, 12 January 2017 at 13:38, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote: > On Thursday, 12 January 2017 at 12:56, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 12.01.2017 um 12:44 schrieb Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski: > > > > Yes, we're just changing the default, if you drop a 99-local.conf file > > > > in > > > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d with the following contents: > > > > > > > > Section "OutputClass" > > > > Identifier "intel" > > > > MatchDriver "i915" > > > > Driver "intel" > > > > EndSection > > > > > > > > Then you should get the intel driver used for any GPUs using the i915 > > > > kernel driver. > > > > > > How does one do the opposite (i.e. switch to the modesetting driver) on, > > > say, Fedora 25 running on Haswell? I'd like to test if that works around > > > a particularly annoying system freeze bug > > > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98760) > > > > exactly the same way? > > > > [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/02-intel.conf > > # Section "Device" > > # Identifier "Videocard0" > > # Driver "intel" > > # Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" > > # Option "TearFree" "true" > > # Option "DRI" "3" > > # EndSection > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Videocard0" > > Driver "modesetting" > > Option "AccelMethod" "glamor" > > EndSection > > Right, thanks. Unfortunately that doesn't help for the above bug. > > One other thing. After switching to the modesetting driver, the > xrandr output names change (e.g. from HDMI1 to HDMI-1), which should be > documented as the existing head configurations will not work out of the > box after driver switch.
It does fix one obscure issue I was having with Citrix Receiver Linux client. The mouse cursor in the remote session changed to a black rectangle when hovering over certain application windows. This is no longer happening with the modesetting driver. Yay... Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
