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

[Xiang, Haihao]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 23:27 +0800, djmagee at mageenet.com wrote:
> Ah ha! I hadn't seen those last few posts on the bug report.  I turned
> off metacity, and now I can report, I can watch video tear-free.
> However, it only works when I have one display active.  If I have two
> active displays, the tearing is still there.  I'm using a sony tube
> hooked up to the VGA port (through DVI-VGA adapter), and a sony
> kdl-46xbr6 via HDMI port on the prolink card.  The TV is being driven
> using the timings for 1920x1080 at 60 autodetected by the driver.  I'm
> adding 1920x1080 at 60 to the VGA output using gtf and xrandr, so I'm
> sure the timings are different.  Is this expected behavior, or a new
> problem?  Again, let me know what I can do to help.
> 
The driver will select a 'best' pipe and synchronize the video output to
the VBLANK of the selected pipe. So you should watch video without
tearing on a display and maybe still see tearing on another display.

> Thanks,
> Doug Magee
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xiang, Haihao [mailto:haihao.xiang at intel.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:17 PM
> To: djmagee at mageenet.biz
> Cc: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] FW: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.6.99.902
> 
> 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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