[Intel-gfx] FW: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.6.99.902

[Xiang, Haihao]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 05:54 +0800, djmagee at mageenet.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Running Fedora 10, I've updated all my xorg* packages, libdrm, mesa against rawhide.  
> I'm running a vanilla 2.6.29-rc6 kernel.  I downloaded the 2.6.99.902 snapshot and it compiles and drops 
> into my xserver no problem.  I now see a new xv attribute, XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK.  From what I've read in the mailing list, 
> this is supposed to default to 0, for auto, however, it seems to default to -1 for me.  
Other video drivers also have attribute XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK, and set 'off'
to 0, and 'on' to 1, so I changed the default last. Please read intel
manual.

> I set this value to 1, but I still experience tearing playing video.  
Do you use a composite window manager?  See comments #35,#36 at
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19635

> I didn't see anything in the Xorg log indicating there would be a problem.  
> For testing, I'm using SMPlayer, explicitly selecting xv for video output.  This is on a DQ45CB with a pixelview ADD2 card for HDMI output.  
> I'm using DRI2 and UXA.  
> Please let me know what I can do to help resolve this problem.  I've attached my Xorg log.



> 
> Thanks,
> Doug Magee
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: intel-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:intel-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Kristian Høgsberg
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:34 AM
> To: Jin, Gordon
> Cc: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] FW: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.6.99.902
> 
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Jin, Gordon <gordon.jin at intel.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are starting 2.7.0 release (as part of 2009Q1 package) cycle. Here's the first release candidate.
> >
> > The main improvement against 2.6.0 includes:
> > SDVO-TV support, available on ADD2 card (bug#9992) and D945GCLF2 board (bug#17776).
> > basic SDVO-LVDS support
> > tearing-free xv (bug#19635)
> > panel startup failure on some specific laptop models (bug#17292)
> > and various fixes for UXA/DRI2 and Kernel Modesetting.
> >
> > Please give it a try and report bugs as usual (referring to http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html).
> 
> I'll build this snapshot in Fedora Rawhide, in time for the Intel
> Graphics testing day we're going to do tomorrow:
> 
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-12
> 
> We'll be running the test day in #fedora-qa on freenode.  The test
> plan that I wrote up has some fedora specific things in it (like the
> plymouth/X integration) but should be useful for testing on other
> distros.  Feel free to join in!
> 
> thanks,
> Kristian
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