X.Org's Modesetting Driver Gets Smarter - Queries Mesa For Which GL Driver To Use

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org's Modesetting Driver Gets Smarter - Queries Mesa For Which GL Driver To Use

The X.Org Server and its integrated "modesetting" DDX driver that is most commonly used on modern Linux systems in place of hardware-specific DDX drivers is finally getting more robust with xorg-server 1.21... It will no longer rely upon the server's PCI ID driver mapping for figuring out the DRI driver to load as needed for GLAMOR 2D acceleration over OpenGL...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Modesetting-Query-DRI-Driver

[Baguy]

Good to see Xorg getting some much needed attention

[Aryma]

is Xorg Modesetting still slower on Intel hardware than xf86-video-intel ?

[aufkrawall]

is Xorg Modesetting still slower on Intel hardware than xf86-video-intel ?

At least it still causes stutter in mpv here.

[uid313]

Is any mode setting driver used on Wayland?

[cybertraveler]

Thanks Ken Graunke. Sounds like an elegant solution.

[Britoid]

Is any mode setting driver used on Wayland?

Wayland uses KMS.

[tildearrow]

Wayland uses KMS.

Wayland does not use anything. It is just a protocol.

It's up to the compositors to use something to present. Most of them use DRM/KMS though.

[Britoid]

Wayland does not use anything. It is just a protocol.

It's up to the compositors to use something to present. Most of them use DRM/KMS though.

My bad.

[nanonyme]

Is any mode setting driver used on Wayland?

I suspect what you wanted to know was whether this helps XWayland, right?