On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:10:54PM +0000, m...@netbsd.org wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 06:46:58PM +0000, nia wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 04:20:42PM +0000, m...@netbsd.org wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 09:58:29PM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > > > > The pkgsrc version led to segmentation faults on my Thinkpad X220 with > > > > Intel > > > > graphics, while the version from NetBSD worked without any problems. > > > > > > I think that xf86-video-intel on pkgsrc needs to be updated to the > > > latest git. Intel stopped doing releases for it. > > > > > > Additionally it has some undefined behaviour that clang strongly > > > disapproves of, we are patching it in base. > > > > > > > Isn't pkgsrc x using the modesetting driver on x86 and arm now? > > I copied the patches from xsrc that cause it to be matched. > > The xsrc patches should still prefer intel over modesetting. > It was a good choice since GLAMOR doesn't work on base xsrc, so > modesetting is dramatically worse. I suspect it works better with pkgsrc > xorg. > > I'm not sure. The Intel people said the modesetting driver might be the > way to go. If GLAMOR works you can remove the intel driver from the > build to get the same effect.
I don't think GLAMOR works. Xwayland complains about it being missing and refuses to work, at least. I think modesetting driver will be necessary in the future since it seems that xf86-video-intel is barely on life support.
