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  • #11
    Intel HD graphics ? not for 3D anyway

    my old PC had a nvidia 8800 GTS, and that was working nicely with Linux for years.
    Now I have an Ivy bridge i7-3370 with a wonderful open source driver.
    the truth is I can't play anymore very simple games like the one in the humble indie bundle (Trine 2 and Shank for example).
    and due to the S3TC issue, I find it easier to install & configure nividia binary blob than intel driver.

    So nvidia has closed source driver which is bad, but at least you can play 3D games with it.

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    • #12
      Originally posted by jockinator View Post
      and due to the S3TC issue, I find it easier to install & configure nividia binary blob than intel driver.
      Oh come on, libtxc_dxtn is a simple library, compilable with the usual
      Code:
      ./configure --prefix=/usr; make; sudo make install
      There may even be some pre-compiled packages for your distro available in a third-party repo.

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      • #13
        Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
        Anyways back to the article, IMO, documentation that in-depth isn't helpful at all. What good is a reference when you've got that many pages to go through? Its a GPU reference, how much info could they possibly supply that'd be relevant to anybody, including intel's own developers?
        It is rather daunting at first I remember when I first started looking into GPU programming, and figured I'd read through the G965 documentation. Then I discovered it was nearly 2000 pages (small by today's standards!), a lot of which doesn't make much sense without the right background, and quickly got lost.

        I pretty much live and breathe these documents now, referring to them almost every day; the trick is to ask someone for pointers on where to find what you need, and after a while, you begin to see how they're organized and where to find stuff. We definitely could use some more overviews and introductory level documentation though. I've meant to try and put together a Gen assembly tutorial at some point, as it's considerably more complicated than your usual x86 stuff.
        Free Software Developer .:. Mesa and Xorg
        Opinions expressed in these forum posts are my own.

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        • #14
          Originally posted by Gusar View Post
          It was announced at the intel-gfx mailing list and on Eugeni's blog, which is aggregated at planet.freedesktop.org. You have an interesting definition of "quietly", I must say
          I also posted this to google+, facebook, twitter and irc. I don't know how much more louder should we announce a new set of documentation releases .

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          • #15
            Originally posted by Kayden View Post
            It is rather daunting at first I remember when I first started looking into GPU programming, and figured I'd read through the G965 documentation. Then I discovered it was nearly 2000 pages (small by today's standards!), a lot of which doesn't make much sense without the right background, and quickly got lost.
            Yeah, I had the same experience. It looked like all that odd symbols from matrix to me in the beginning, and after looking and looking at all those registers and their content it suddenly transformed itself into something meaningful. Like in Matrix movie, when you look at some strange symbols and discover that it is a kernel panic^W^W Neo running away from the GPU hangs .

            But speaking seriously, it is a very interested read, as those documents explain lots of background behind the programming of different stages of GPU. At least for execution units programming, 3d engine programming and core stuff it is a very interesting read to understand how things work under the hood. Display part is very interesting as well, but it requires much more background to make sense though..

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            • #16
              eugeni_dodonov & Kayden,

              How much involvement from the Open Source community do you see after these documentation drops are made?

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              • #17
                Originally posted by asdx
                That's not about Intel's graphics. So it's not Intel's call whether docs will be released or not.

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                • #18
                  Question about Quick Sync

                  Hello to everybody, first I apologize for my poor english. As far as I know there is no support in Linux for Intel Quick Sync. This release would help in the future for having that technology available? It would be great to have such thing for ffmpeg, for example.

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                  • #19
                    Code:
                    $ vainfo
                    libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
                    libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
                    libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
                    libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
                    vainfo: VA-API version: 0.32 (libva 1.0.15)
                    vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver - 1.0.17
                    vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
                          VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
                          VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
                          VAProfileH264Baseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
                          VAProfileH264Baseline           : VAEntrypointEncSlice
                          VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
                          VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
                          VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
                          VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
                          VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
                          VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
                          VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
                    basically you have got the encoder available, but if there is an app to make real use of it i don't know...

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                    • #20
                      Originally posted by asdx
                      They can't help it that Imagination Technologies can't/won't open up their stuff. Not to worry though, word on the street is that the next version of Atom will be based on an Ivy Bridge GPU core, so Atom will get its open source fix after all.


                      Originally posted by pakolo View Post
                      Hello to everybody, first I apologize for my poor english. As far as I know there is no support in Linux for Intel Quick Sync. This release would help in the future for having that technology available? It would be great to have such thing for ffmpeg, for example.
                      There's support for the DEcoder (if I understand correctly), but no support (yet) for the ENcoder. If someone knows better please correct my post.

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