Fw: Deignoring ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel29

[Kris Moore]

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On 10/19/2010 13:19, Kris Moore wrote:
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> 
>> Hi.
> 
>> Ping timeout from miwi@, so I'm forwarding here. Should there be any
>> disscussion regarding this, please keep me in Cc as I'm not subscribed to
>> the list. Thanks.
> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 01:56:01 +0200
>> From: Daniel Bilik <daniel.bilik at neosystem.cz>
>> To: miwi at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Deignoring ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel29
> 
> 
>> Hi.
> 
>> You seem to be the last one who made changes to
>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel29, so I'm writing to you. If you are not the
>> right person or you are short of time, you may want to forward to someone
>> else (or maybe to freebsd-x11@, but I'm not subscribed to that list). And
>> sorry to bother if this was already disscussed and is being worked on.
>> Anyway this is the story...
> 
>> In recent days I've been struggling with miserable state of new Intel
>> graphics on FreeBSD (Pineview in my case). Using our "stable" (or better
>> stalled) version of the driver makes Xorg to hang during startup. With
>> (deIGNOREd) intel29, the Xorg works (without DRI), but it consumes
>> unreasonable amount of CPU... On switching to another workspace there is
>> several-seconds hang while Xorg re-draws app's windows there. It makes the
>> environment almost unusable if you are switching apps often. Sad and
>> annoying at the same time. :-/
> 
>> After almost whole day of torturing Google, I've hit some notes about
>> so-called "legacy driver". It turned out that at the end of August, Chris
>> Wilson of Intel released his fork of the driver, based on 2.9 but GEM-free
>> and UMS. See this post:
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>> http://www.mail-archive.com/intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org/msg01309.html
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>> I've downloaded the code from here...
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>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/xf86-video-intel/commit/?h=legacy
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>> ... and compiled it in place of x11-driver/xf86-video-intel29. XvMC is
>> disabled in this legacy driver but DRI seems to be working... somewhat.
>> It crashes Xorg after a while, but it may be due to my unusual setup
>> (large --fb with --panning). I don't need DRI, so I just disabled it, and
>> I've been happily using this legacy thing for several days now.
> 
>> Maybe it's worth replacing xf86-video-intel29 with this version of the
>> driver and de-ignoring it. It won't break anything for users of
>> xf86-video-intel while giving a functional alternative to those of us
>> running newer Intel graphics.
> 
>> Hope this helps (you or anybody else).
> 
>> --
>> 						Daniel Bilik
>> 						neosystem.cz
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> 
> Daniel,
> 
> I'm interested in trying this out here. Did you have to do any fiddling
> with the source to get it to compile? I've downloaded it via the link
> you provided, and ./autogen.sh fails when I try to generate the
> configure scripts:
> 
> ./autogen.sh
> autoreconf-2.67: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf-2.67: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf-2.67: running: aclocal
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/libfame.m4:6: warning: underquoted definition
> of AM_PATH_LIBFAME
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/libfame.m4:6:   run info '(automake)Extending
> aclocal'
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/libfame.m4:6:   or see
> http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> configure.ac:40: error: xorg-macros version 1.8 or higher is required
> but 1.6.0 found
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4:39: XORG_MACROS_VERSION is
> expanded from...
> configure.ac:40: the top level
> autom4te-2.67: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal-1.10: /usr/local/bin/autom4te-2.67 failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf-2.67: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> 
> The latest xorg-macros in ports is 1.8, so figured I'd ask before
> spending a lot of time on this :)

Err, meant the latest in ports is 1.6...

> 
> If you have your original distfile for this legacy source, that would
> work as well.
> 
> 




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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
iXsystems
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