xorg-server-1.6 and xf86-video-intel-2.6.2 please :D

szczerb · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject:

2.7.0 is the new "stable" release. And 9999 version of any package (sometimes it's 99999999 for longer naming) get's you the current master git - that's whatever devs are currently working on, so definitely not stable.

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Bakou · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 42

Ok, general report time.
Using Intel 2.7, xorg-server 1.6, mesa 7.4 and kernel 2.6.29.1 on a ThinkPad T500 w/ the Intel X4500HD GPU
What doesn't work:
-KMS works in framebuffer console mode.. but as soon as I get into X with KMS it's like it tries to set the screen resolution too high and I see only very blurry overscanned fuzz
-supposedly this issue with UXA and compiz (version 8.2) and the white/yellow artifacts on transperancies was fixed between mesa 7.4 and intel 2.7, but I still get it especially in wine and briefly in other apps too. May be that something isn't linked to mesa properly or some other config problem...
-Occasionally in compiz I get a gma45 vblank sync error in dmesg. Normally harmless, but when using dual screens it seems to make the entire system so laggy its almost unusable.

What works: everything else (even suspend to ram now too!)

Has anyone else fixed these issues? Anyone have working UXA with KMS in compiz? or even KMS in plain X?

P.S. Where the hell is the ebuild for xorg server 1.6 r1? That could help.
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albright · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject:

FWIW, for me intel 2.7.0, xorg 1.6.0, mesa 7.4 and kernel 2.6.29 (tuxonice)
with KMS works extremely well in both X and console. Sleep and
hibernation also works apparently perfectly (this is an improvement
for me over earlier setups).

Thinkpad x300 (so intel video GM965).

I did the kernel patch thing to get 2.7.0 working right BTW.
(https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-756902-highlight-.html)

The only thing - it takes a long time for KMS to get going during bootup;
the screen changes resolution as the init scripts start and after the kernel
loads ... I don't know/understand if that's unusual or not

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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8956

My current working GM45 setup:
git-sources-2.6.30_rc2-r7-patch-i915 (you need the patch to make xf86-video-intel-2.7.0 actually work)
xorg-server-1.6.1 (fixed X resetting (2.6.29) and freezing (2.6.30))
xf86-video-intel-9999 (2.7.0 made X reset every once in a while)

rahulthewall · Veteran Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1264 Location: Zürich

Can we have a version bump to 1.6.1 in the x11 overlay...

right now I have just renamed the 1.6.0 ebuild
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milomak · Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 287

Which option should I use in grub to have the console resolution in say vga=771 mode. Currently when I use that the screen goes blank until X starts

My kernel framebuffer section looks like so

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grodzik86 · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:38 pm Post subject:

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8956

2.6.29.2 still needs the i915 tiling-patch for xf86-video-intel-2.7.0.

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rahulthewall · Veteran Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1264 Location: Zürich

Remove vga=771 from grub.conf and reboot - KMS would provide a nice terminal for you. As far as I know, you cannot use VGA and KMS in parallel.
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szczerb · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject:

Is the kernel patch for 2.7.0 still needed with 2.6.30_rc3 or is it included?

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8956

Still needed, and still works with that version.

szczerb · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:53 pm Post subject:

Would you explain to me how to apply the patch?

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szczerb · Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:10 am Post subject:

Ebuilds are fun

I just made myself vanilla-sources-2.6.30_rc3 with the patch ;] Tried gentoo-sources first, but had some problems and was too tired to try and understand.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8956

I like my approach where, thinking of the next kernel-upgrade (typically happening a few days later), the patches will get applied automagically again.

Also, this works for automatically applying all featured patches to the ebuild:
UNIPATCH_LIST="${FILESDIR}/*.patch"

Lots of commits to Linus' kernel ~10 hours ago: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=summary
Including the i915 tiling fix. So it'll definitely be included with the next minor release, if not already present in 2.6.30_rc3-r5.

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Bakou · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 42

Another general update:
kernel 2.6.30-rc4 vanilla-sources works great in KMS with intel 2.7.0 with no patch!
Now I just need to patch vmware-modules to work with it... so I can have nice graphics AND vmware. (imagine that!)
I guess that wil be my next post.
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3 GB PC6400 DDR2 825mhz 4-4-4-15
nVidia 8800GT
Creative X-Fi (works in Gentoo)

rahulthewall · Veteran Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1264 Location: Zürich

milomak · Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 287

Rahulthewal I made the changes after upgrading to the latest vanilla-sources. The console font is still the default huge font.