On Tue 27 Jun 2017 19:43, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> writes: > >> On Wed 21 Jun 2017 09:55, Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> writes: >> >>> For a long time now, I have a tearing issue on GuixSD (parts of the >>> screen do not get updated while others do, resulting in dissapearing >>> text in Emacs). >> >> I wonder if it makes sense to update the intel driver to see if it fixed >> it? Then perhaps we could avoid the hack. There are commits here that >> touch SNA and things that look like they could be relevant: >> >> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/log/ > > It's a good idea, but we're already using HEAD (6babcf1) from their > repo, and have been since June 11 (guix commit e2de6bbdd5). I can > confirm that this didn't solve the problem for me. > > In the meantime, how would you feel about pushing the following commit > to master? It would still allow the use of SNA by explicitly asking for > it in xorg.conf, but auto-configuration would choose UXA by default. > > What do you think?
Looks good to me. We should report the problem though... ok I did that here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101620 Looking forward to having a normal Emacs again :) Andy