Re: PATCH: use UXA on default for pre-skylake intel GPUs

2019-11-24 Thread John D. Baker
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, John D. Baker wrote: > I will be trying the patch soon-ish. I have tried the patched module on a machine with: > 82G41 and it seems to work. It selects UXA acceleration by default. As such, the TearFree option is not needed. Perhaps if the detected device causes UXA

Re: PATCH: use UXA on default for pre-skylake intel GPUs

2019-11-06 Thread John D. Baker
Not all older intel GPUs need this. In my case, amd64 hosts with 82G41 82Q45 82946GZ video are broken with SNA and the 2019 intel Xorg driver but a couple of i386 hosts with i82915 video work fine with SNA. As such, they also don't require the TearFree option, to save a performance

PATCH: use UXA on default for pre-skylake intel GPUs

2019-11-06 Thread matthew green
hi. can folks who have issues with default setup and intel GPU that were solved by switching to UXA, as well as anyone else who didn't try that yet please try this patch? i'm hoping it can be a stop-gap for the recent issues.. https://www.netbsd.org/~mrg/intel.uxa.older.diff thanks.