GDM/Gnome confused about screen size

2009-07-23 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, Since I finally got a working KMS build I have one final problem. GDM gets confused about what the screen size actually is. Although there is a display across the whole screen the menu bar and background image take up the top 3/4 of the screen. When Gnome starts it's menubars are both

Re: [ANNOUNCE] intel-gpu-tools 1.0

2009-04-30 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/4/27 Eric Anholt e...@anholt.net: This little package is an amalgamation of a few things: - miscellaneous userland tools that don't really fit into the 2D driver tree - standalone regression tests for the DRM (make check) Interesting. My run reported 1 failure but make check is quite

Re: 2.6.30-rc2 + xorg-intel-2.7.0 + DRM_I915_KMS = corruption

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/4/27 Florian Mickler flor...@mickler.org: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:27:35 +0100 Alex Bennee kernel-hac...@bennee.com wrote: Heading the warnings in the menuconfig I did try and ensure I have all the up to date parts of user-space. With KMS enabled GDM starts up but then corrupts

2.6.30-rc2 + xorg-intel-2.7.0 + DRM_I915_KMS = corruption

2009-04-19 Thread Alex Bennee
Heading the warnings in the menuconfig I did try and ensure I have all the up to date parts of user-space. With KMS enabled GDM starts up but then corrupts the display with vertical lines. Disabling the kernel config and everything starts up fine, UXA acceleration seems OK and the speed of compiz

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.7.0

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/4/17 Stefano Avallone stava...@unina.it: On Friday 17 April 2009 17:32:32 Carl Worth wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 20:24 -0700, John Ettedgui wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Frederik Himpe fhi...@telenet.be wrote:         On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:29:33 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:

Re: Tiling on i915-class hardware

2009-03-06 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/3/5 Vasily Khoruzhick anars...@gmail.com: Hi, I've just tested i915 tiling in 2 ram configurations: 512mb, single channel: tiling works perfectly, no performance issues with tiling enabled 512mb + 512mb dual channel interleaved: When tiling is enabled it introduces performance

evdev commit 051cb8b528f6eddddccee44842bcb2152ed0e418

2009-03-02 Thread Alex Bennee
This commit seems to break building of evdev: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include/ -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing -Wbad-function-cast -Wold-style-definition -Wdeclaration-after-statement

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-evdev 2.1.99.1

2009-03-02 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/3/2 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net: First snapshot for evdev 2.2. Lots of cleanup, and - most notably - general axis/button support. For those running an X server from master, evdev will label axes and buttons for you. shortlog is a bit longer than it actually is, it includes

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.6.2

2009-02-25 Thread Alex Bennee
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xterm: xcb_io.c:454: _XRead: Assertion `dpy-xcb-reply_data != 0' failed.

2009-02-23 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, The long saga of trying to get a working git xorg continues. I can start the git X with a simple .xinitrc that contains an xterm. However as soon as I press a key xterm dumps core after printing the assert. I thought it might be there was a mismatch between xterm and the newly built

Re: [intel 845G/GL] Status of xorg, xf86-video-intel, etc on 845

2009-02-22 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/2/21 dolphinling li...@dolphinling.net: Alex Bennee wrote: Are you seeing any kernel oops on your drm-intel kernel with the latest X? I have a similar setup and am seeing: I never saw any oopses, no. I wasn't checking or saving any logs besides Xorg.0.log, though. Exactly what

Re: How to troubleshoot intel 3D performance?

2009-02-17 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/2/16 Vasily Khoruzhick anars...@gmail.com: Hi, performance issue is known thing on pre-965 chipsets with new intel stuff (gem, uxa). I've filed bugs about them: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19873 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19738 AFAIK there's no fix

Re: How to troubleshoot intel 3D performance?

2009-02-17 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/2/17 Colin Guthrie gm...@colin.guthr.ie: 'Twas brillig, and Vasily Khoruzhick at 17/02/09 09:05 did gyre and gimble: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 10:12:56 you wrote: 2009/2/16 Vasily Khoruzhick anars...@gmail.com: Hi, performance issue is known thing on pre-965 chipsets with new intel

Re: How to troubleshoot intel 3D performance?

2009-02-17 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/2/17 Alex Bennee kernel-hac...@bennee.com: 2009/2/17 Colin Guthrie gm...@colin.guthr.ie: 'Twas brillig, and Vasily Khoruzhick at 17/02/09 09:05 did gyre and gimble: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 10:12:56 you wrote: Looking at the code it looks like a failure of the kernel side

Where is xkeyboard-config in the X tree

2009-02-17 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I'm trying to get an build of X from source to run independently from my system X. I've been using the instructions on the wiki but I keep running into problems. I discovered I had to manually build mesa but I'm still failing to run: (EE) intel(0): First SDVOB output reported failure to sync

Hand built git X doesn't start properly

2009-02-17 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, Almost there now. I seem to have successfully built git based X by hand. However now when I startx the monitor just stays blank and X emits the follow: (==) Log file: /home/alex/src/xorg/install/var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Feb 17 18:46:11 2009 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: 2 Questions: recompile xorg sources + xorg git

2009-02-17 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/2/17 Florian Lier f...@icram.de: Hello everyone, snip original machine. I thought recompiling the sources should handle this...make clean doesn't solve this. Have you got PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH giving priority to your built X over the system one? I hope this question is not too

How to troubleshoot intel 3D performance?

2009-02-16 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I recently switched on Compiz on my desktop machine to see what the fuss was about. Running on the stable Gentoo X and intel drivers more or less everything worked well. The benchmark tool reported 120fps on most static screens and seemed pretty happy with most of the effects. However video