| Summary: | x11-base/xorg-server : switch to modesetting driver for gen4+ Intel GPUs | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Alexander Tsoy <alexander> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | grknight |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Alexander Tsoy
2019-09-24 20:05:15 UTC
(In reply to Alexander Tsoy from comment #0) > Many distributions already switched to using modesetting driver for gen4+ > Intel GPUs by default (e.g. Fedora [1] and Debian/Ubuntu [2]) due to > multiple problems in intel ddx. Please consider doing the same in Gentoo. > > Personally I was forced to use modesetting driver on one of my Intel systems > due to long standing bug [3]. > > [1] > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xorg-x11-server/blob/master/f/06_use- > intel-only-on-pre-gen4.diff > [2] > https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/xserver/xorg-server/blob/debian-unstable/ > debian/patches/06_use-intel-only-on-pre-gen4.diff > [3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88584 We already do this when VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" in make.conf *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 592026 *** What do you propose exactly? Patching xf86-video-intel to only work on Gen < 4? Using VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" already does not pull in xf86-video-intel, so you'll get modesetting. Some people insist (against my suggestions) on using xf86-video-intel. Oh, I haven't noticed that VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" doesn't pull in x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel. So maybe it should stay as it is. |
