Feedback from latest Intel drivers / xserver

[Daniel Kasak]

Greetings.

I've just updated to the latest stuff ( xserver-1.2.99.901,
xf86-video-intel from git, drm from git, mesa-6.5.2, 2.6.19 kernel ) and
done some limited testing.

Firstly, I was unable to get direct rendering working ( yes I'm *sure* I
had the latest drm ). I'm not sure if the rest of the problems hinge on
this or not.

Next, I tried running 'xcompmgr -Ff' ( with EXA enabled ). This turned
out to be an order of magnitude slower than with XAA, which is actually
usable on this integrated chip ( i845G ).

Next, I tried switching Enlightenment-0.17 to use the XRENDER engine.
This immediately crashed the X server, with:

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pgetbl_ctl: 0x2ffe0001 pgetbl_err: 0x0
ipeir: 0 iphdr: 9020c0
LP ring tail: 458 head: 3b8 len: 1f001 start 0
eir: 0 esr: 0 emr: ff7b
instdone: ffc1 instpm: 0
memmode: 0 instps: 2c
hwstam: effe ier: 82 imr: 53c iir: 41
space: 130904 wanted 131064

Fatal server error:
lockup

(EE) intel(0): I830 Vblank Pipe Setup Failed 0
(EE) intel(0): I830 Vblank Pipe Setup Failed 0

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At this point I should also mention that each time I had an xserver
crash, I had to reboot before I could start X again, otherwise I'd get:

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(WW) intel(0): PRB0_HEAD (0x000003b8) and PRB0_TAIL (0x00000000)
indicate ring buffer not flushed
(WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state.

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 ... and it would immediately crash again.

After rebooting, I've tried starting Enlightenment with the XRENDER
engine ( I can't get into it to set it back to software ), and it does
the same thing each time. I assume EXA / XRENDER isn't complete / stable
yet?

I'm pretty much out of time for testing at the moment ... have to
quickly install xserver-1.2 and get some work done.

Full X log and xorg.conf attached.

Dan

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