Hi Luca, Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> (14/06/2012): > According to upstream README: > > <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-modesetting/tree/README> > > The idea is to piggy-back the X driver on top of the DRM and Gallium3D > drivers (DRM for modesetting and Gallium3D for Exa acceleration) > > Does this mean that I could (hypothetically) replace the -intel driver > with -modesetting? This is what I understand from the long description > and from the README. Thus, I would be a bit more verbose in the long > description, to be clear when this driver is useful.
this is meant to be a fallback driver (between vesa and fbdev). For that to work, the server needs [1] this driver's being added to the list of autoconfigured driver and [2] to be fixed WRT PCI things. Both of those are trivially cherry-pickable, but the latter breaks the ABI, so won't probably be in wheezy. Maybe some similar commit could be crafted to fix the PCI issue without breaking the ABI though. Even then, I'm hitting some bugs, the first of them being: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51053 (relevant commits are mentioned there) The second being EINVAL with a 3.4 kernel (still needs to be reported). The plan was updating the long description once things are a bit more settled. Mraw, KiBi.
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