Understanding of Composition call flow in XServer

uday kiran pichika udaykiran.pichika at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 06:36:07 UTC 2020


Thanks Michel. Yes, it is loading Intel video driver. To confirm this, i
had enabled logs in Intel video Driver (SNA), logs are floated into
xorg.n.log file(when started X using startx) .

I have a question on capturing the logs when system rebooted. Can you
please help where to enable this ?

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 1:48 PM Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

> On 2020-02-27 1:35 p.m., uday kiran pichika wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to X Server and working on a new feature development. As part of
> my
> > job, am going through the composition call flow in X. To study this, i
> have
> > added/modified  xf86DrvMsg logs under *xfree86/drivers/modesetting* to
> > understand the output and crtc initialization and DRM commits and
> launched
> > X with the below command on virtual terminal.
> >
> > sudo startx -- -logverbose 6
> >
> > But none of the logs are being printed as part of Xorg.n.log file except
> > these
> > [  3158.316] (II) intel(0): Uday --- fbdevhw.c : fbdev_open
> > [  3158.317] (==) intel(0): Uday ----- Default visual is TrueColor
> > [  3158.318] (II) intel(0): Uday --- xf86RandR12.c : xf86RandR12Init
> > [  3158.327] (II) intel(0): Uday --- Setting screen physical size to 508
> x
> > 285
>
> This is shows Xorg using the intel driver, not modesetting.
>
>
> --
> Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               https://redhat.com
> Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer
>
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