Bug 649102 – x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20180214 version bump

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Christian Ehrig 2018-02-28 22:00:12 UTC]

Created attachment 521518 [details]
xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20180214.ebuild

Hi,

attached is an ebuild for the latest xf86-video-intel driver from upstream (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/)

Compared to xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20171018, It seems, it solved some window drag lags for me on Gnome as well as Plasma.

atm I'm running a Lenovo X270 with HD 620 onboard graphics. I do not have different machines to test on.

Cheers,
Christian

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2018-03-01 06:14:04 UTC]

Comment on attachment 521518 [details]
xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20180214.ebuild

--- xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20171018.ebuild  2018-02-22 22:44:57.673307051 +0100
+++ -   2018-03-01 07:13:03.541518777 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

 EAPI=5
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@

 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 IUSE="debug dri3 +sna tools +udev uxa xvmc"
-COMMIT_ID="4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73"
+COMMIT_ID="75795523003798d789d417e82aaa81c7ea1ed616"
 SRC_URI="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/snapshot/${COMMIT_ID}.tar.xz -> ${P}.tar.xz"

 S=${WORKDIR}/${COMMIT_ID}

[Comment 2 Matt Turner 2018-03-01 06:16:17 UTC]

(In reply to Christian Ehrig from comment #0)
> Created attachment 521518 [details]
> xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20180214.ebuild
> 
> Hi,
> 
> attached is an ebuild for the latest xf86-video-intel driver from upstream
> (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/)
> 
> Compared to xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20171018, It seems, it solved some
> window drag lags for me on Gnome as well as Plasma.
> 
> atm I'm running a Lenovo X270 with HD 620 onboard graphics. I do not have
> different machines to test on.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian

Thanks, I can do this version bump, but why are you using xf86-video-intel on such a modern Intel GPU? The modesetting driver built into the xserver is recommended these days.

[Comment 3 Christian Ehrig 2018-03-01 08:48:13 UTC]

Thank You, I'm having noticeable performance problems with the modesetting drivers. I followed the intel guide in the wiki, but still much more graphical artifacts and tearing especially when resizing or dragging windows.

It seems that Archers and FreeBSDers complaining about the same thing, so maybe we should give people the option to also try with a current version xf86-video-intel.

[Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow 2018-03-02 01:11:05 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fcbb3b78297ddc67168b97813b21efedfc3ee008

commit fcbb3b78297ddc67168b97813b21efedfc3ee008
Author:     Craig Andrews <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2018-03-01 23:34:43 +0000
Commit:     Matt Turner <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2018-03-02 01:10:56 +0000

    x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel: 2.99.917_p20180214 version bump
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/649102
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/7331

 x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel/Manifest              |  1 +
 .../xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20180214.ebuild     | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 91 insertions(+)