(Intel 965) Upgrade to xorg-server 1.6.1, Linux 2.6.30, KMS - Problems with Xv, GL

[Hasso Tepper]

Johannes Truschnigg wrote:
> x) Logging out of KDE (using KDM, KDE 3.5.10) crashes the X server, and
> the screen stays blank/black

True even without drm. I filed a bugreport regarding this, but mine is
probably just ignored because I don't use Linux.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21831
 
> x) Playing back video with mplayer (1.0rc2) using Xv crashes the system
> hard
> 
> x) Playing back video with mplayer using "-vo gl" or "-vo gl2" woks, but
> when mplayer exits (due to the end of the video stream being reached, or
> closing its window) results in a backtrace like the following:
> http://pasted.at/99f86c09fd.html - I have to kill -9 mplayer afterwards to
> destroy the video window. That's particulary annoying when playing back
> videos full screen. Switching to a VT does work here though, even after
> mplayer crashed in fullscreen mode.
> 
> x) if KMS is NOT enabled, the error I described above proves fatal to the
> system, and I have to reset my machine as a whole.

That what happens to me because the OS I happen to use (DragonFly BSD)
doesn't have KMS support. Also happens with tuxracer for example here.

Anyway, I'm rather sad to see the intel driver in the state in which it is
at the moment. Every release since 2.4 series has been only regression for
me. So far there has been workaround for me to get at least 2d working
without crashes (without drm) and with acceptable performance - XAA. But
with 2.7.x it doesn't work either any more:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360921

Sorry to say that, but even the Nvidia binary driver (I can use the one for
FreeBSD on DragonFly with quite ugly hacks) has been better choice.


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Hasso Tepper