I've installed this ports tree and basic video is working fine, except 3D - glxgears window is empty. I'll investigate this problem later.
2011/7/23 Koop Mast <k...@freebsd.org> > On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 16:16 +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > Hello, > > after the initial code drop, I have fixed some amount of bugs and got > > several positive reports from users. If KMS worked on your machine, you > > probably can use the driver with 3D acceleration on regular basis. > > > > As I see the state of the effort right now, there are two most > > impeding issues that prevent wider testing of the driver. First is > > the non-working display port code, causing failure in KMS for some > > configurations. This will be eventually fixed. > > > > Second is the very laborous procedure to install the required usermode > > components. The http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU lists the > requirements. > > > > The port provided ddx and mesa cannot be simply updated, because kernel > > driver is not yet in src/ head, not mentioning the stable branches. > > Also, new libdrm and mesa may be non-functional on our old non-intel DRI > > drivers. Additional quirk is that in-tree Xorg server is old, and git > > head for intel ddx cannot be built against old Xorg API. > > We ( freebsd x11@ team) are already working on a update, instructions > below. > > Keep in mind that this update isn't complete yet. Not all xorg ports are > updated yet. And there is the issue, that the old intel driver doesn't > work with the new xorg-server. If you using this driver and don't want > to update to current for the new intel driver, please don't use this > repo. > > I'm currently working on a update for the mesa ports (libGL*, dri etc) > to a version that works with the sandybridge. > > Also note that currently only the xf86-video-intel-kms driver is > currently tested. (since my ati card seem to have died) > > svn co http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/branches/xorg-dev > > A basic merge script can be found here > http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge > > just run portmaster -a, keep in mind to rebuild your xf86-* ports after > the server update. > > -Koop > > > For wide testing, the easy way to install fresh usermode graphics stack > > is neededi, while still allowing the most installations to use present > > outdated versions. > > > > Could ports/x11 people help me there ? Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
