Latest Intel XF86 driver

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 21:09:15 UTC 2008


On 9/3/08, Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 18:45 +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> On 9/3/08, Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:31 +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> >> On 9/2/08, Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org> wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:54 PM, John Stokes <airy at netspace.net.au>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> Hi there
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I see that there have been a few bug fixes  to the Intel 2.4.0
>> >> >> driver
>> >> >> and
>> >> >> that it has now been released as 2.4.2 , any chance of an update??
>> >> >
>> >> > Done.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I got regression with this "bug fixes" port update - swithching vty is
>> >> broken.
>> >> I get blank screen (full black or full white - depending on situation)
>> >> when returning to Xorg), only workaround is to kill Xorg. (DRI is
>> >> disabled)
>> >>
>> >> I got multiple errors:
>> >> (EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
>> >> (EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
>> >> (EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
>> >> (EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
>> >> (EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
>> >> (EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
>> >> (EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe B!
>> >
>> > I've been seeing this recently as well, but I believe that the underrun
>> > is always on an inactive pipe and has to do with DFS. (download from
>> > screen).  For the record, I don't work on 2D drivers though, so I'm only
>> > spreading my observations and rumours heard around the campfire...
>>
>> When DRI is enabled, switching vty works fine.
>> But DRI (mesa OpenGL) is still broken, at least with my i945GM :(
>
> That reminds me actually... I committed a fix to the 2D driver the other
> day for someone else that probably fixes this.  Give this patch a try...

Tested. No changes in behaviour.
>
> robert.
>
>> >
>> > robert.
>> >
>> >> ....
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > --
>> >> > Florent Thoumie
>> >> > flz at FreeBSD.org
>> >> > FreeBSD Committer
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