Re: Bug#556213: please do upgrade to xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.9.1
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:07:44 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 05:54 AM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > They're assembly for the gen4 hardware (965 and up). I have to admit
> > I've never looked at that language. It's probably documented in the
> > i965 docs, and the assembler is at
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gen4asm/
>
> so where did those files come from? what do they do? they seem to be
> added to the package without any justification that i could understand
> from poking around in the package and the git repo, though i freely
> admit that i only poked around for about 15 minutes trying to understand
> what was happening, and could very well have missed somthing.
>
They should all come from the upstream repo, I think they're just
missing from the upstream tarball due to INTEL_G4I in Makefile.am not
listing all of them. The .g4i and .g4a files are source for the .g4b
ones, which are usually not rebuilt from source by anyone other than the
driver developers afaict (and even then, they seem to be fairly static,
since they each implement a particular function).
> > These options control the default value for the modeset parameter. Even
> > when not set the drivers are kms-capable (at least i915, and that will
> > be true for radeon as well in 2.6.32 IIRC).
>
> ah, gotcha, thanks. so i could try this out with intel hardware right
> now just by adding that line to /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf ?
>
Yes, that's the idea. You might have to regenerate the initramfs as
well, I'm not sure.
Cheers,
Julien
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