Summary: | EXA support for xf86-video-i810 | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Søren Færløv <cthulhu> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | VERIFIED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | n-roeser |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Søren Færløv
2005-10-24 01:15:18 UTC
Forgot to add link to the patch, so here it is: http://www.virtuousgeek.org/patches/i830-exa-latest.patch Inspecting the patch it appears that the ebuild for xorg-server will require changes too. I won't add it for two reasons: 1) As a rule, patches are not added until they're in CVS upstream. This will not be added till after the 7.0 release. 2) The patch is broken. The author ignored DRI functionality (he said so) and it shows. I tried it today and EXA support caused massive GL baddage. However, if you're still interested in trying it I have a badly hacked together ebuild and modified patch. Let me know and I'll upload it for you. Thanks for your time spend researching this feature. :-) I tried modifying the patch and put together an ebuild myself, but the result was disastrous (black screen and nothing else...). I fully understand and respect your decision, given the state of the patch. I'd love to try out your ebuild, that's what overlays are for, right? ;-) http://dev.gentoo.org/~joshuabaergen/experimental/xf86-video-i810-exa.tar.bz2 Like I said, it's badly put together ;) Thanks anyway :-) As you said OpenGL causes major baddage. In my case it crashed Xorg :-( Compiling with USE="-dri" failed. Hopefully the Xorg folks will add this feature soon, as the promised speed increase would be very welcome. |