Xgl and i810

Peregrine · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 67

Ok, current state of play: its all working for me at the moment, with the following package versions:

# emerge -pv glitz mesa x11-drm xgl xorg-server xf86-video-i810 cairo libXcomposite libXfixes libdrm compositeproto fixesproto compiz glproto

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] media-libs/glitz-0.5.5_p20060323 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-6.5.0_p20060401 USE="3dnow mmx motif sse -debug" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 -ati -mga -none -s3virge -savage -sis -tdfx -trident -via" 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20060323-r1 VIDEO_CARDS="i810 -ati -mga -nv -savage -sis -tdfx -via" 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xgl-0.0.1_p20060401 USE="-debug -ipv6" 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.1_p20060402 USE="aiglx dri xprint -debug -ipv6 -minimal" 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-1.5.2.0_p20060323 USE="dri -debug" 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/cairo-1.1.1_p20060323 USE="X doc glitz png svg" 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/libXcomposite-0.2.2.2 USE="-debug" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/libXfixes-3.0.1.2 USE="-debug" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/libdrm-2.1_alpha20060313 USE="-debug" 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] x11-proto/compositeproto-0.3 USE="-debug" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] x11-proto/fixesproto-4.0 USE="-debug" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] x11-wm/compiz-0.0.7_p20060403 USE="gnome quinnstorm svg -aiglx* -kde -theme_plain" 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] x11-proto/glproto-1.4.6 USE="-debug" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage overlays:
[1] /usr/local/portage
[2] /usr/local/xgl-coffee-testing

This is without having to copy over the old Mesa driver anymore. My build is partly Xgl, partly AIGLX as I have been trying both paths.

Note: if you want to lose all the "libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b" style errors, simply run:
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=TRUE

or if you just want to test: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=TRUE glxinfo

I have about a 50fps hit atm when trying glxgears - native 1100fps vs 1080fps with LIB_ALWAYS_INDIRECT. Trying to use compiz with AIGLX is giving me DRM timeouts instead of starting, so i'm still researching.

x.para · Apprentice Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 174 Location: CZ

I also moved to xgl-testing and I subjectively reaching better performance than at previous revision. Strange and interesting thing is, that when cube is in calm CPU consumption is much higher than when cube or either moving or in rotated in some position. I understand it so, that different method of rendering is used to render to the cube in calm or in move. I believe this question should go to CoffeeBuzz. I could easily watch the TV over xdtv when I kept cube in rotated position with CPU consumption under 40%, which is my native performance and 100% when cube was calm. I also did not managed to unmast x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.1_p20060402 as Peregrine showed. I tried to unmask it by ~x86 and -* but it is still masked. Can you also advice on this one?

higon · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 9 Location: IL

Current Mesa 6.5 works on i915 hardware but slower (50% slower than mesa 6.4.2 on my laptop.)

roderick · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

I have a re-draw problem with running Never Winter Nights with Mesa 6.5 as well. Lot's of slow triangular re-draws and flickering in the intro screens. Once you get past those and actually open a game, it appears to be fine (though slower). I also tried the export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=TRUE and after exiting NWN, the system crashed Xorg-server.

Same unsupported visual problem. If I revert back to i915_dri.so from Mesa 6.4.2 and use the xf86-video-i810 it behaves as normal again.

There's definately something wrong, though whether it's Mesa or i810 I do not know.

I just wish it worked.
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Peregrine · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 67

One thing to watch for - i've been following the xorg mailing list and it appears that theres work being done over at Intel for the i810 video driver. Might be hopeful.

roderick · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject:

James Wells · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 57

Greetings,

Well, I have followed everything on this thread, and have even gotten higher performance, when not using XGL, but for some reason I am completely unable to get XGL to work with DRI.

Without XGL I get about 750ish FPS, when I play NWN, all robes, wings, and a few other items show up horribly skewed from what they should be.

With XGL, I drop from my to around 150ish. Additionally, my normal screen refreshes take about half a second.

This is all on a p4M laptop with an Intel 855GM video and LCD display.

HecHacker1 · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UCSD

i think it's safe to say that the i810 driver has been, and will continue to be fubar for some time. I tried xgl, from a live cd no less, and it worked perfectly on nvidia hardware.

i'm gonna try that live cd and see how it works on my laptop.

VanDan · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 586 Location: Australia

I've successfully got XGL working with an integrated POS intel card

The card:

Lejban · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 53 Location: Sweden

Xgl starts, I see the bg and mousepointer for 0.1 sec then it drops back to console: "No screens found" but no other error... tried many different ways, but no luck.

Command:

VanDan · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 586 Location: Australia

For a start, I'm not *certain* that things will work on your system, due to you having a slightly different chipset.

Yours:

x.para · Apprentice Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 174 Location: CZ

Hi does anybody have problems with ABI version mismatch? When I upgrade xorg-server to version higher than 1.0.99.2_p20060404 which looks like 1.0.99.9xx has issue, I receive

AnimeUnrivaled · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Does anyone know what progress has been/is being made towards getting hardware acceleration for programs within XGL?

I've been running XGL for quite some time on my laptop w/i915 and a Celeron M 1.4, and I'm quite happy with most stuff. The 3D effects work well, my battery life is still good, and scrolling has vastly improved. That said, I can't watch videos beyond a certain size without losing frames, can't play any games because they're extremely slow, and glxgears gives me a score of around 100.

Does anyone know if this is even being worked on at all?
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x.para · Apprentice Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 174 Location: CZ

I spent many days on XGL too but eventualy after seeing XGL performance on NVidia Geforce card I got rid of my XGL installation from my intel machine. Some days ago I started again

from the scratch, but I am not too happy. It is desperately slow and glxgears gives me only about 15 fps. Video was not possible to see at all without loosing frames. I gave some hope into new 1.6.0 i810 driver, but I did not managed to bring it up due to ABI version mismatch with xorg-server. Make to long story short, I don't see to big improvment on intel field but I belive there is a lot work of done so far. Can you please post what versions you are on? I am interested in i810 driver version, xorg-server version and x11-drm too. But if you post all, it would be nice.
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HecHacker1 · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UCSD

i did some research into the topic..

right now a lot of work is being done in the modeless and texture accelerated video branch. Both are separate, presumably to be merged later.

the modeless branch should make it possible to use all resolutions without the 855resolution program.

the video branch is for playing back videos in linux using hardware acceleration instead of cpu (what little we have)

anyways, i didn't see any progress in the main branch for accelerated XGL.

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg-driver-xf86-video-intel;a=summary

right now i'm running the latest coffee XGL with Xorg 7.1 and intel 1.6.0. Everything is working as good as it can. The XGL part of the rendering isn't actually too slow. My windows and stuff flow really nicely. But I do realize that it is completely CPU driven at the moment.

but opengl and video playback really suck. Except when I play a fullscreen video and enable the option to disable XGL during fullscreen playback.

edit: i do see that some progress has been made in the EXA branch, which does allow some acceleration, but EXA is supposed to be phased out? I think XGL is supposed to use Opengl.

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roderick · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject:

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roderick · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:35 pm Post subject:

Here's what my Xorg.0.log shows:

HecHacker1 · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UCSD

Here is where I read about the new driver dev.

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver

I'll edit this later with my version numbers.. although everything is updated at the moment to the very latest Coffee overlay and portage --sync.

I disabled my in kernel DRI and instead used the DRI/DRM modules from portage/overlay. Remove the option from your kernel and do a make clean to get rid of any old files. Recompile/install/reboot. I too once had version mismatches and it was because of old files. I unemerged everything that had to do with the i810/intel driver, and did a search to delete the rest manually.

btw, i use the xf86-video-intel driver instead of the xf86-video-i810 driver.. newer i believe.

If you really wanted to you could check out the latest code from the above link. Although I couldn't figure out the correct --prefix command to get the driver installed in the correct place. The git repository is 2 months newer than 1.6.0 with a lot of fixes. But that is why I use the xf86-video-intel, because it seems to pull the driver from the git.

roderick · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:50 am Post subject:

VanDan · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 586 Location: Australia

I don't suppose there's any word on getting Gandalf's AIGLX patches into an xorg-server ebuild so people with Intel video cards can use compiz on AIGLX? Just wondering ...
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roderick · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject: