Testing latest -intel in Ubuntu

[AliBaba]

Ok, a summary, if I undestood correctly:

• drm/modesetting-gem - outdated drm-modules-source, don't compile (you can't)
• anholt/drm-intel-next - no i915 module
• linux-2.6 master - DRM modesetting incomplete

Is there any way to "test" modesetting atm or do I have to sedate (read: kill) the geek inside me? Sorry, for asking, I'm not involved in drm development and don't read the mailing lists. Maybe I should.

[tormod]

Is there any way to "test" modesetting atm or do I have to sedate (read: kill) the geek inside me? Sorry, for asking, I'm not involved in drm development and don't read the mailing lists. Maybe I should.

It's might worth to read the xorg and dri-devel mailing lists. This stuff is so new that it probably only work on some developer machines with quite some effort. I think Eric was also pitching Fedora for being the choice for testing latest stuff. Maybe they have tweaked their kernel so it works. And maybe they deliberately keep it messy so that other distributions will have a hard time catching up

[AliBaba]

And maybe they deliberately keep it messy so that other distributions will have a hard time catching up

Ahh!

I already suspected that. :-D


Well, there is a rawhide repository that is maintained by Dave Airlie. Could be worth checking that out (git is a marvelous tool) but I remember something about "currently only support for ATI, Intel later".


Anyway, I really understood that this stuff is still bleeding. But I can't resist being attracted to it. Every time I read about progress in KMS, GEM or plymouth or whatever I get excited like a child in front of the Xmas tree.

I need a life (or more time for bouldering).

[coolos]

Hans on launchpad is talking about 1300~1500 FPS, is that possible ? So that means that we can get those values or less with the official intel/gem drivers ?

( My card is an Intel 965GM ( X3100 ) )

I posted some bugs on launchpad about the lack of 'INTEL_BATCH' environnement variable in recent intel driver and performance regression.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/284082

I have a eeepc 900A (i945) under Ubuntu Hardy. I currently have 1450fps in glxgears, and smooth animation with compiz. Note that this is done with DefaultDepth=16.

The most important part is INTEL_BATCH=1 set in /etc/environment. This option works fine for me.

[AliBaba]

Status update:

Well, I managed to compile i915 out of drm-intel-next (stupid mistake: forgot to select framebuffer support).

Video driver is latest mesa/master.

I tried drm/master and modesetting-gem, but none of the combinations (including tormods xserver-xorg packages) makes modesetting work.


Anyways, I got i915 in my kernel again.

[shirish]

hi all,
just an update. There was a slew of updates today morning due to alpha2 including a new kernel 2.6.28.3 (rebased on 2.6.28-rc8) almost 100 MiB of updates.

As far as stuff is concerned, am able to get to the login screen and type but keyboard delay is horrible. Also mouse is able to scroll around normally but no clicking.

This is from stuff on main though, no xorg-edgers being used atm.

[tormod]

EXA glyph cache patches

For those using Intrepid (or even Hardy) I uploaded a new xserver-xorg-core to the xorg-edgers repo which has a collection of EXA glyph cache patches (selected from trunk by Thomas Jaeger). This should improve the intel performance.

(2:1.5.3+git20081216+server-1.5-branch.4970d757-0ubuntu0tormod1 for intrepid)

You can use the -intel 2.5.99.1 (2.6 RC1) from xorg-edgers, or the stable -intel 2.5.1 from https://launchpad.net/~intel-gfx-testing/+archive

[tormod]

jaunty status

Just want to point out that at this point, xserver 1.6 has landed in main Jaunty (since alpha-2) and the xorg-edgers packages are obsoleted, except for the -video- drivers and mesa packages.

[rbmorse]

Just want to point out that at this point, xserver 1.6 has landed in main Jaunty (since alpha-2) and the xorg-edgers packages are obsoleted, except for the -video- drivers and mesa packages.

My RV770 no likee Jaunty with the radeon driaver after today's (post Alpha 2) updates, not one little bit. RadeonHD works OK. Investigating.

[shirish]

no go even after doing the latest xorg from jaunty1:7.4~5ubuntu8 still stuck on the login screen.