Bug#801081: Re: Bug#801081: Re: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

2016-05-30 Thread Jason Briggs
6 à 08:35, Julien Cristau a écrit : >> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 15:53:28 -0400, Jason Briggs wrote: >> >>> Please include this patch as well: >>> >>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-qxl.git/plain/qxl-kms-disable-composite.patc

Bug#801081: Re: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

2016-05-29 Thread Jason Briggs
can't be used properly at all with KVM/spice, it really break functionality and there is no workaround there unless you rebuild the CD. There is still 2 years of life to jessie and all downstream suffer. On Tue, 24 May 2016 07:26:52 -0400 Jason Briggs wrote >Dear Maintainer: &

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

2016-05-24 Thread Jason Briggs
Dear Maintainer: I need to advise you that the current package in Stretch xserver-xorg-video-qxl 0.1.4-3+b1 is ***NOT*** fixed on my Stretch I manually recompile xserver-xorg-video-qxl and applied the following patch: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-qxl.git/plain/no-surfac

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

2016-04-09 Thread Jason Briggs
I need to add some information. Here is a link to a thread to Jessie downstream distro suffering from issue: https://forums.whonix.org/t/qxl-slowness-fix/1759 Fedora has some patches applied to QXL and maybe they would help: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-qxl.git/tree/ htt

Bug#801081: Re: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

2015-11-29 Thread Jason Briggs
Hello, I tried some time ago to install the qxl driver from testing into Jessie but it hang with green screen on boot. I tried a few days ago to make a new vm of Stretch and it still has the problem. To make qxl usable I have to disable the offscreen surfaces as in the conf. It speeds up everyth

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

2015-10-07 Thread Jason Briggs
WORKAROUND (finally!!!): sudo editor /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-qxl.conf # insert the following: Section "Device" Identifier "qxl" Driver "qxl" Option "ENABLE_SURFACES" "False" EndSection # save + reboot with QXL video This was suggested on a mailing list for a downstream Jessie distro

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

2015-10-07 Thread Jason Briggs
I wonder if these issues and lack of configurability aren't related to the fact that xserver-xspice package (part of QXL source) appears to be missing from Jessie altogether?? https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xserver-xspice Another note: I've found this affects other Jessie-based distros as w

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

2015-10-05 Thread Jason Briggs
Another way to replicate: Simply run the Jessie live CD (debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso) as a guest in Virt-Manager with QXL driver (default) and try to load Iceweasel and try to scroll through some websites for 10 minutes. Even with spice-vdagent missing, with only the qxl driver the

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

2015-10-05 Thread Jason Briggs
Minor correction: I used the Cirrus driver on Wheezy machines. For Jessie machines I have it set to the VGA driver (because Cirrus has issues on Jessie guests as well). I had no luck trying to backport the xserver-xorg-video-qxl package from Sid locally on my own (green screen) and limited abil