xf86-video-intel 2.2.1 release testing

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 09:21 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 08:46:31 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 15:37:08 +0800, Jin, Gordon wrote:
> > > Tino Keitel wrote on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:10 AM:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > works well on my Mac mini with Debian Sid (Xserver 1.4.90, Mesa 7.0.2,
> > > > DRM from kernel 2.6.24-rc8). I disabled framebuffer compression to
> > > > work around #13326.
> > > > 
> > > > However, textured video still produces tearing video. With video
> > > > overlay it works fine.
> > > 
> > > Tino, thanks for the testing.
> > > 
> > > Is the tearing video issue like
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11311?
> > > 
> > > Jesse/Zhenyu, do you have any idea on this? Unfortunately I can't
> > > reproduce this.
> > 
> > I discussed it with jbarnes on #intel-gxf yesterday and he pointed me
> > to a vblank-rework tree tree that I should try. But the bug looks
> > interesting as well, especially the glxgears part.
> 
> I tried it with vblanc_mode set to 3 in ~/.drirc. And while glxgears
> was running and reported between 58 and 60 FPS, I started mplayer and
> still got tearing video.

Yes, xf86-video-intel has never had any code to prevent tearing with the
textured XVideo adaptor. So for now you'll have to use the overlay
adaptor or a video player GL output plugin.


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