On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 05:41:33PM +0200, Koop Mast wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 17:04 +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 03:51:54PM +0200, Koop Mast wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 16:16 +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > after the initial code drop, I have fixed some amount of bugs and got > > > > several positive reports from users. If KMS worked on your machine, you > > > > probably can use the driver with 3D acceleration on regular basis. > > > > > > > > As I see the state of the effort right now, there are two most > > > > impeding issues that prevent wider testing of the driver. First is > > > > the non-working display port code, causing failure in KMS for some > > > > configurations. This will be eventually fixed. > > > > > > > > Second is the very laborous procedure to install the required usermode > > > > components. The http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU lists the > > > > requirements. > > > > > > > > The port provided ddx and mesa cannot be simply updated, because kernel > > > > driver is not yet in src/ head, not mentioning the stable branches. > > > > Also, new libdrm and mesa may be non-functional on our old non-intel DRI > > > > drivers. Additional quirk is that in-tree Xorg server is old, and git > > > > head for intel ddx cannot be built against old Xorg API. > > > > > > We ( freebsd x11@ team) are already working on a update, instructions > > > below. > > > > > > Keep in mind that this update isn't complete yet. Not all xorg ports are > > > updated yet. And there is the issue, that the old intel driver doesn't > > > work with the new xorg-server. If you using this driver and don't want > > > to update to current for the new intel driver, please don't use this > > > repo. > > > > > > I'm currently working on a update for the mesa ports (libGL*, dri etc) > > > to a version that works with the sandybridge. > > > > > > Also note that currently only the xf86-video-intel-kms driver is > > > currently tested. (since my ati card seem to have died) > > > > > > svn co http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/branches/xorg-dev > > It seems this is an URL for Track installation. What is the repo address ? > Oops that should be: > > svn co https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/branches/xorg-dev Should multimedia/libva included into the tree ? Or, at least the 965 driver for libva.
> > > > > > > A basic merge script can be found here > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge > > > > > > just run portmaster -a, keep in mind to rebuild your xf86-* ports after > > > the server update. > > > > > From what I see using web browser, your plan is to update the stack in > > the ports. I suspect this might cause problems for non-Intel cards or > > for those who use in-tree i915.ko. In particular, new Mesa might not > > work. > > That is a good possibility. I only have a sandybridge intel card to > test. The only issue currently know are the nouveau driver (which needs > mesa 7.4.4 and doesn't work with 7.6.x), and the old intel driver. > > If it turns out other drivers don't work with the new setup, obviously > we need to make it so that they will work. Although I'm currently got > half a mind to just drop the nouveau driver. Thank you for your work. > > -Koop > > > > -Koop > > > > > > > For wide testing, the easy way to install fresh usermode graphics stack > > > > is neededi, while still allowing the most installations to use present > > > > outdated versions. > > > > > > > > Could ports/x11 people help me there ? Thanks. > > > > >
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