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Bug 471212

Summary: media-libs/mesa-9.1.2-r1 update breaks kde opengl compositing type for i915 GPU
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Herbert Wantesh <rauchwolke>
Component: [OLD] KDEAssignee: Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: x11
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Herbert Wantesh 2013-05-24 22:27:32 UTC
it's not possible to switch in kde to the opengl compositing type after the media-libs/mesa-9.1.2-r1 update. It only possible to use the XRender. gpu: i915

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Herbert Wantesh 2013-05-24 22:55:37 UTC
merging mesa with VIDEO_CARDS="i915 i965 intel" solved the problem - but why is i965 needed for an i915 card?

dmesg |grep i915
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 raid=noautodetect pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.i915_enable_rc6=7 
[    0.456725] i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    0.489588] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[    0.596661] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus dpb] timed out, falling back to bit banging on pin 5
[    1.361488] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[    1.361514] i915 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier
[    1.377425] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2013-05-25 00:00:46 UTC
Do not confuse the kernel driver called i915 (which drives all modern Intel chipsets) with the mesa driver.

Given your kernel commandline parameters, I consider it highly unlikely that you have an actual i915 (or 945) chipset which are the only ones that the mesa i915 driver is responsible for.