Re: New intel X driver requires testing.

2010-05-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:19:04 -0700 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:47:45 +0100 Owain Ainsworth zer...@googlemail.com wrote: The tarball that may be found at http://xenocara.org/intel-current.tgz contains an update to the intel 2.9.1 driver (the last

Re: New intel X driver requires testing.

2010-04-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:47:45 +0100 Owain Ainsworth zer...@googlemail.com wrote: The tarball that may be found at http://xenocara.org/intel-current.tgz contains an update to the intel 2.9.1 driver (the last one that supported userland modesetting) with a load of backports for bugfixes and

Re: New intel X driver requires testing.

2010-04-22 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:04:06 +0200 Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: This machine, a Thinkpad SL510, worked fine with the Xenocara/the driver from a snaphot; I compiled Xenocara (not just the driver - I got compile errors) for the newer version. (So note that I've never tried

Re: New intel X driver requires testing.

2010-04-22 Thread J.C. Roberts
I've noticed an interesting difference between the new driver, and the old/existing driver in the April 15th i386 snapshot (dmesg below). With the old/existing intel driver in the snapshot, my 845G uses EXA acceleration, and Xv doesn't work. Attempting to force the driver to use UXA acceleration

Re: New intel X driver requires testing.

2010-04-22 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:39:48AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: I've noticed an interesting difference between the new driver, and the old/existing driver in the April 15th i386 snapshot (dmesg below). With the old/existing intel driver in the snapshot, my 845G uses EXA acceleration, and Xv

Re: New intel X driver requires testing.

2010-04-17 Thread Sviatoslav Chagaev
DELL Latitude D400 laptop reporting in! At first, I accidentally compiled the kernel without the GEM option, as a result, when I ran X, the screen just went black, and even when I killed the server through ssh, the screen never recovered. Everything seems to be working ok. I played with

New intel X driver requires testing.

2010-04-11 Thread Owain Ainsworth
The tarball that may be found at http://xenocara.org/intel-current.tgz contains an update to the intel 2.9.1 driver (the last one that supported userland modesetting) with a load of backports for bugfixes and performance improvements from drivers up to 2.11. In order to test this, you will need