[Intel-gfx] Question about support libs for 2.7.1/uxa/dri2/kms

[Ian Romanick]

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Will Saxon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I decided to upgrade my system to kernel 2.6.30 and give 
> kms/uxa/dri2 a whirl. This system is used primarily as a mythtv 
> frontend.
> 
> While the mythfrontend interface seems to work fine, any attempt to 
> display video results in a black screen. I am not able to do a vt 
> switch, but I am not sure if this is gfx or input related. I am able 
> to access the machine remotely. I do get the broken front buffer 
> rendering warning, but no other errors are stored in the log.
> 
> I am using libdrm 2.4.11, xorg-server 1.6.2, mesa 7.4.4, kernel 
> 2.6.30 and intel driver 2.7.1. The intel drm support is compiled into 
> the kernel. 

Please update to Mesa 7.5-rc4 and Intel driver 2.7.99.902.  There are
quite a few front-buffer related fixes in those updates.

See:

http://marc.info/?l=mesa3d-dev&m=124615192402911&w=2
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2009-July/003362.html

> Should I expect working video from this configuration? I see that the 
> 2009Q1 page lists older versions of all the components I list above, 
> but I am not sure if the patches specified for kernel drm and mesa 
> have been included in general releases yet.

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