On 2020-02-12 2:06 p.m., Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:23:28 +0200 Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> said: > >> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:07:56 +0000 >> Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:40:15 +0200 Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> >>> said: >>> >>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:21:02 +0000 >>>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> even better - if the /dev/dri/card0 >>>>> device exists, dlopen libdrm and get some symbols from it and ... use >>>>> it to request the drm device sent you vsync events so you can use the >>>>> vsync interrupt as your frame event. this will be another fd to listen >>>>> on in select() and of course you can turn this vblank event stream on >>>>> and off. >>>> >>>> Please don't. Talk to the X server instead. >>> >>> and what vsync events does the xserver provide? >> >> You don't want vsync events. You have no idea what they >> correspond to, or even if you opened the right device. >> >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/blob/master/presentproto.txt > > I wrote the drm support before the present extension existed. The drm > path is easy to support - only open if a single card exists (if multiple - > don't do it and fall back to timer based animation) and you can filter for > multiple screens as you get events for all screens. Yes - you end up syncing > with a single chosen screen if you filter for just one of the vblank events, > but it's better than using the system clock.
You only get an event for the CRTC you ask for in the DRM_IOCTL_WAIT_VBLANK ioctl. How do yo know which CRTC to pick? > I have found x present XPresentNotifyMSC() to be unreliable where the > drm back-door above is far more reliable. For example - on my amdgpu driver > here it just refuses to produce any events (yes - extension is there), [...] I haven't seen any such reports, so I'm not aware of such issues with xf86-video-amdgpu. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | https://redhat.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
