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
(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.