xf86-video-intel-2.5.0 is slow

[Eric Anholt]

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 12:54 +0200, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 11:52:15 you wrote:
> > Mesa 7.2 is not enough for GEM to work. You need latest git.
> >
> > Grab dri2proto, drm(for libdrm only, not linux-core), mesa, and
> > xf86-video-intel for GEM enabled kernel.
> > Also make sure You have xserver-xorg-core 1.5.x (with EXA method as UXA is
> > still a bit buggy and needs dri2)
> >
> > Do this if You dont plan to use blender, there are still some bugs, only
> > compiz and desktop acceleration works well.
> >
> > 2008/11/4 Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul at gmail.com>
> >
> > > Btw, are you sure that 3D should work OK on gem-enabled kernel with
> > > non-gem mesa? Because with non-gem kernel I have no problems with 3D
> 
> So, you mean that I can't get 3D with gem-enabled kernel and non-gem mesa? I 
> don't want any fancy dri2-things, just old mature dri :)
> 
> The thing is that in 2.6.27 irda subsystem is broken, and sane patches to fix 
> it exists only for 2.6.28... So I tried to use 2.6.28 RCs... So, ok, I'll 
> rollback to 2.6.26 kernel :)

pre-GEM Mesa is supposed to work fine with a GEM kernel.  It pretty much
did last we tested it.  However, as it's compatibility code we're not
putting testing or development time on it now.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com


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