backporting xserver-xorg-video-intel 1.9.94 + xorg 1.3rc5, usage report

[emisca]

This is a list of what I've backported and its compilation order:

xcb-proto
libpthread-stubs0-dev
libxcb
xtrans
x11proto-core
x11proto-input
x11proto-randr
x11proto-damage
x11proto-gl
libxrandr
xbase-clients
libdrm
mesa
xorg-server

The packages I've updated are:
libdrm2 libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa
libglu1-mesa-dev libxrandr-dev libxrandr2 mesa-common-dev mesa-utils
x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-randr-dev xbase-clients
xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-i810 xtrans-dev

It works.. these things are relatively new. It seems I have not dpms
problems anymore with my lcd screen :-D

xrandr 1.2 is really a dream that become true... but perhaps there is
no application support by gnome and kde. The geometry of X changes but
the window manager doesn't read the changes or it's not notified. Do
you know if there are workarounds for this?

Opengl performance is the same, using the legacy driver. I've not
tried the new i915_tex driver as is still young and unstable and needs
newer drm and agpgart kernel modules.

I've not seen AIGLX improvements. The overlays (video and gl apps)
still don't work well, especially simple glut applications. Is there
any work in progress to solve this?

Intel EXA acceleration is very slow compared to XAA, and I can often
notice some artifacts when windows are resized (using kwin 3.5.6).
Using a compositing manager (beryl 0.2.0, compiz 0.3.6) the
performance are still slow, compared to XAA.

In conclusion I've seen many and many improvements in xorg development
in the last year, thanks to everybody who contributed, good job!!

Bye,
Emilio

2007/4/10, emisca <emisca.ml at gmail.com>:
> But if I want to do a complete Xorg 7.3 backport.. is there any
> compilation order in addition to what we said....?
>
> 2007/4/10, emisca <emisca.ml at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks, I'll try to build it, and I'll report if it works...
> >
> > 2007/4/10, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>:
> > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 00:20:53 +0200, emisca wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would like to backport using pbuilder the new 2.0rc intel driver
> > > > that it's present in the experimental branch of debian.
> > >
> > > For what distribution are you trying to backport it?  Assuming you mean
> > > etch for now...
> > >
> > > > Could anyone explain me which is the correct chain of dependencies to
> > > > have a well compiled xorg 1.2.99 server + mesa 6.5.2 +
> > > > xserver-xorg-video-intel 1.9.94?
> > > >
> > > > I think it should be, please correct me if I'm wrong:
> > > > - libdrm 2.3
> > > > - mesa 6.5.2
> > > > - xorg-core 1.2.99
> > > > - xserver-xorg-video-intel 1.9.94
> > > >
> > > You need x11proto-randr and x11proto-damage somewhere before the server.
> > >
> > > > Is there any way to compile it against etch's xorg 7.1?
> > > >
> > > I'm not sure.  The needed files from the server sources are present in
> > > the xf86-video-intel tarballs, so it might just work.  It's probably not
> > > very well tested though, so if you run into problems you might want to
> > > report them on xorg at lists.freedesktop.org.
> > >
> > > > If I want to have the new randr 1.2 support, what libs are needed
> > > > (perhaps in addition to libxrandr)?
> > > >
> > > libXrandr is only needed for the xrandr command-line client (included in
> > > xbase-clients in Debian), IIRC.
> > >
> > > > Is there a list of the correct building order of the complete new
> > > > modular xorg present in experimental? I've seen that there are many
> > > > libs, and it's very difficult to manually build a dependency list..
> > > >
> > > Not that I know of.  Most of the libs didn't have any big changes
> > > though, so libdrm+mesa+libXrandr might be sufficient.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Julien
> > >
> >
>