Bug#801081: Re: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance
Please include this patch as well:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-qxl.git/plain/qxl-kms-disable-composite.patch
it appear to help with glitches.
Is there any chance these two patch can make it into Jessie? The reason is because it affects all jessie live CD and live CD 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:
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>I need to advise you that the current package in Stretch xserver-xorg-video-qxl 0.1.4-3+b1 is
>***NOT*** fixed
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>on my Stretch I manually recompile xserver-xorg-video-qxl and applied the following patch:
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>http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-qxl.git/plain/no-surfaces-kms.patch
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>using this patch on the recompile package, the issue no longer happens (when kms enabled).
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>To be specific, with this patch enabled, even though Xorg.0.log report that surfaces enabled,
>they behave as if disable and all works. This is the same behavior I can see when I ran a Fedora;
>log say enabled but no issue, because in fact disable internally.
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>I advise please apply the patch above to package (if there is no other patch in works).
>This can't be in the next Debian.
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>In addition I advise to check other patches listed:
>http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-qxl.git/tree/
>to see if they fix anything else, such as qxl-kms-disable-composite.patch
>I can confirm there is other issues with QXL driver (other than this bug) with 4.x+ kernel such as broken auto-resizing ("Auto Resize VM with Window" broken).
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>Thank you
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