xorg Digest, Vol 204, Issue 15

[Ahsan]

Hi Ken,

Thanks for your input. Please see my comments inline below.

> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:49:30 +0100
> From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com>
> To: xorg at lists.x.org
> Subject: Re: Xserver Error loading intel_drv.so undefined
> 	symbol:I810InitMC
> Message-ID: <YuGk2inKZGc/w484 at llamedos.localdomain>
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> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 08:47:58PM +0200, Ahsan wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
> 
> Hi Ahsan,
> 
> I doubt I can help directly, but a few comments (so, I'm snipping a
> lot of your details)
> 
> TLDR: Do you really need the intel driver ?
> 

No, there is no hard requirement for this, unfortunately, this error 
stops
loading the intel driver module properly hence a target machine ends up 
with
incorrect resolution. The idea is to avoid this error so that loading of
intel module (for Intel HD 630) works fine.
In a previous version of BR, the combination of intel drivers and xorg 
1.20.10
works fine, however, in a new BR release, the combination is broken and
I end up with the error above. So far, I've found that the intel video
driver version is same for both xorg 1.20.xx and 1.21.2 (or 21.1.2).
I'm trying to pinpoint what's been changed in 21.1.x that causes 
i810InitMC
error but so far I've had no luck.

> For your undefined symbol, google found
> https://www.openwall.com/lists/sabotage/2015/01/07/1
> with no linked follow-up about how he solved it, but perhaps an
> updated version of the intel driver fixed it.
> 
> On beyond-linuxfromscratch we've been using an intel git pull from
> 20210222 with xorg-server-21.1.3 in our last release (11.1).  For
> that we configured the intel driver with --enable-kms-only and also
> with --enable-uxa .
> 

I tried --enable-kms-only(the other flag is already enabled) but no 
luck.
Could you please point me to the repo link. The last version on xorg's
website (https://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/)
seems to be 2.99.917. Perhaps, I'm looking at an old link?

> In our 11.0 release we used the 1.20.13 server with that same
> version of the intel driver.  If you are not familiar with BLFS, our
> releases list what we think works at that point.  Obviously, people
> who care about security are expected to update certain things
> afterwards (e.g. xserver if running as root).
> 
> The other thing about the intel driver is that most distros use the
> modesetting driver which is now part of the xserver (provided you
> supply the necessary dependencies).  On my own old haswell with its
> integrated graphics I don't build the intel driver and modesetting
> works well.>

I think, I came across LFS and found some information regarding intel
video driver useful.
In my case, modesetting don't guess the resolution correctly, and intel
driver does the job.

> I recall that someone had issues in the past (maybe in late 2019)
> with modesetting on skylake, and I see that on my own skylake i3 I
> do build the intel driver because of that.  I cannot confirm or deny
> that I _need_ that driver, the machine was used as a home server in
> 2019 and it's such a slow dog to build on that I've no incentive to
> see if it needs this (and slower now, of course, with retbleed).  My
> last builds there were the versions mentioned above for our 11.1
> release and they seem to work ok.
> 
> Meanwhile, our development version of BLFS is currently using the
> 21.1.4 server with that same intel driver, but I have no idea if
> anyone has actually built that combination.
> 
> ?en
> --
>  It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of
>  time travel, but most things can be resolved by a sufficiently
>  large ego.        -- The Last Continent
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Br,
Ahsan