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It seems to be working well for me. Stock kernel, Nvidia GeForce 7150M.
One thing I do notice is that the output of glxinfo has changed and it no longer lists much of the previous information such as direct rendering and such. Not sure what's up with that.
No obvious lock-ups or unexpected error/warning messages in xorg.0.log.
One observation regarding xine in full screen: plays dvd but interactive menu and controls become sluggish or non-responsive. This using either xf86-video-ati (radeon) or radeonhd. I haven't seen this response with the open source or proprietary driver before with this hardware. I'll reboot in a few and try it with this same movie with other drivers.
Tried this same movie using 12.2/fglrx and current-32 with more recent gits for drm/mesa/ati/radeonhd. None of these have same problem in xine.
Also tried these test xorg files but downgraded pixman. I thought that helped at first but then a little later, the xine menus became non-responsive and I had to ctrl-alt-backspace to get out.
I think for the hd3200 radeon people, the files in current work better (at least for 64 bit). I have not tried install fglrx (but doesn't compile/install without patching with the 2.6.29 and .30 kernels anyway) over these test files nor I have tried these on the 32 bit. Maybe others can comment.
I wonder if these changes are more for intel graphic chips?
Here on my MSI Netbook with 945GME X worked best in -current around January/February . It went really worse with the major X upgrade somewhen in spring. glxgears showed around 600 FPS and even google earth was working good in the beginning before those upgrades.
These lateste upgrades from Robby now give me the best performance since then. It was better without upgrading the intel driver than stock -current, but it seems to be best now with intel driver 2.8.
Nevertheless, X is still too slow for google earth. glxgears is around 110 fps.
Oh, and glxinfo output is very different now. The mesa demos (of which glxinfo is one) were reworked completely -- some were dropped, some were added, and some were rewritten -- all of them now use libGLEW, which is why glew had to be added. What used to be "glxinfo" is no longer present -- instead, there's something called "glinfo" which may or may not be intended as the replacement, but at the time I was building all of this, that wasn't important, so I just installed glinfo as glxinfo in the package.
glxgears output may be worthless, but with intel-2.7.1, I get 60 fps, with intel-2.8, I get 660 fps & the response just seems to be snappier. I like it much better than the default setup.
Regards.
Bill
My specs:
Intel 855GM chipset
kernel 2.6.29.6-smp i686
xf86-video-intel-2.5.1-i486-1_rlw
NOTE: I'm using the intel-2.5.1 driver because I ran into problems with the intel-2.7.1 and the other intel drivers. I haven't tried the intel 2.8.0 yet.
Anyway, I installed glew and upgraded everything else except for the intel driver. So far so good, I haven't encountered any problems yet. Xorg log still has the same warnings and errors.
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(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/local" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID" does not exist.
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Mouse1
(WW) Disabling Keyboard1
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype
(WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB
(WW) intel(0): Register 0x61200 (PP_STATUS) changed from 0xc0000008 to 0xd000000a
(WW) intel(0): PP_STATUS before: on, ready, sequencing idle
(WW) intel(0): PP_STATUS after: on, ready, sequencing on
(WW) intel(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 1536 pages failed
(WW) intel(0): Allocation error, framebuffer compression disabled
(WW) intel(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 10 pages failed
(WW) intel(0): ESR is 0x00000010, page table error
(WW) intel(0): PGTBL_ER is 0xf000f018
(WW) intel(0): PRB0_CTL (0x0001f001) indicates ring buffer enabled
(WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state.
(WW) intel(0): Hardware claims pipe A is on while software believes it is off
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on front buffer: Invalid argument
(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on back buffer: Invalid argument
(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on depth buffer: Invalid argument
The good thing is that I'm still up and running. No crashes yet with this intel driver. Oh and just in case if anyone is interested, I have uploaded my glewinfo and visualinfo-logs.
My specs:
Intel 855GM chipset
kernel 2.6.29.6-smp i686
xf86-video-intel-2.5.1-i486-1_rlw
NOTE: I'm using the intel-2.5.1 driver because I ran into problems with the intel-2.7.1 and the other intel drivers. I haven't tried the intel 2.8.0 yet.
Definitely try the 2.7.1 driver again with all of the rest of this upgraded. Also, note that Pat's got official releases of the alternate versions of the intel driver added to /extra now.
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Anyway, I installed glew and upgraded everything else except for the intel driver. So far so good, I haven't encountered any problems yet. Xorg log still has the same warnings and errors.
[code](WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/local" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID" does not exist.\
/code]
These are fine -- those two directories are in the default FontPath, but they're empty.
Quote:
Code:
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Mouse1
(WW) Disabling Keyboard1
This is also fine - it's expected behaviour so long as your using input hotplugging via HAL.
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Code:
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype
This is NOT expected, and off the top of my head, I don't know what's causing it.
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Code:
(WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB
(WW) intel(0): Register 0x61200 (PP_STATUS) changed from 0xc0000008 to 0xd000000a
(WW) intel(0): PP_STATUS before: on, ready, sequencing idle
(WW) intel(0): PP_STATUS after: on, ready, sequencing on
(WW) intel(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 1536 pages failed
(WW) intel(0): Allocation error, framebuffer compression disabled
(WW) intel(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 10 pages failed
(WW) intel(0): ESR is 0x00000010, page table error
(WW) intel(0): PGTBL_ER is 0xf000f018
(WW) intel(0): PRB0_CTL (0x0001f001) indicates ring buffer enabled
(WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state.
(WW) intel(0): Hardware claims pipe A is on while software believes it is off
(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on front buffer: Invalid argument
(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on back buffer: Invalid argument
(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on depth buffer: Invalid argument
The rest of that *should* be fixed, I think.
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The good thing is that I'm still up and running. No crashes yet with this intel driver.
Intel 2.7.1
Results:
I tried this driver and I still get those screen icon artifacts. The screen artifacts also appear while watching online flash videos. This driver uses UXA by default and DRI + DRI2 are loaded by default too. Here are the warnings from 2.7.1, much of it is the same except that the following was removed:
Code:
(WW) intel(0): ESR is 0x00000010, page table error
(WW) intel(0): PGTBL_ER is 0xf000f018
(WW) intel(0): PRB0_CTL (0x0001f001) indicates ring buffer enabled
(WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state.
(WW) intel(0): Hardware claims pipe A is on while software believes it is off
(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on front buffer: Invalid argument
(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on back buffer: Invalid argument
(EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on depth buffer: Invalid argument
However, a new warning came up:
(WW) intel(0): [DRI2] Version 1 API (broken front buffer rendering)
Intel 2.7.99.901 + 2.7.99.902
These two uses UXA acceleration by default.
DRI + DRI2 are loaded by default.
Results:
Same as intel 2.7.1. NOTE: The xorg warnings/errors for this one is the same as 2.7.1 but does not contain the warning about "[DRI2] Version 1 API (broken front buffer rendering)."
Intel 2.6.3
DRI + DRI2 loaded by default
Results:
UXA (enabled) - full screen artifact scramble
UXA (disabled) - full screen artifact scramble NOTE: The xorg log is the same except that it says, "DRI2 requires UXA"
Intel 2.8.0
Results:
Same as 2.7.1. NOTE: The xorg warnings/errors for 2.8.0 is the same as 2.7.1 but without the "[DRI2] Version 1 API (broken front buffer rendering)."
So far Intel 2.5.1 has been running stable with no visual artifacts or performance issues on XFCE. I'll just stick with this one for now. I'll wait for further updates.
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype
This is NOT expected, and off the top of my head, I don't know what's causing it.
Those warnings have been seen since upgraded to Xorg 1.6(if my memory is Ok ). After some googleing I found those modules ware not included in resent xorgs. So I just comment them out in my xorg.conf: (hope you can get more info from the comments )
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195 #http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg
196 # recent versions of xorg-server do not include the type1 font module
197 # (completely replaced by freetype
198 # Load "type1"
199 #
200 #http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/409719-what-happened-freetype-module-xorg.html
201 #The freetype module is no longer needed thus it's not there.
202 # Load "freetype"
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