From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Fri Oct 23 13:53:05 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F85A1D013 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:53:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andersbo87@icloud.com) Received: from st11p00im-asmtp004.me.com (st11p00im-asmtp004.me.com [17.172.80.98]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF26E7CB for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:53:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andersbo87@icloud.com) Received: from andersbo-freebsd.local (ti0025a400-1038.bb.online.no [85.164.51.18]) by st11p00im-asmtp004.me.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.35.0 64bit (built Mar 31 2015)) with ESMTPSA id <0NWO000FDBS8M140@st11p00im-asmtp004.me.com> for freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:52:57 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2015-10-23_08:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 kscore.is_bulkscore=0 kscore.compositescore=1 compositescore=0.9 suspectscore=4 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 kscore.is_spamscore=0 rbsscore=0 spamscore=0 urlsuspectscore=0.9 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1510090000 definitions=main-1510230209 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org From: Anders Bolt-Evensen Subject: Testing the new i915 driver Message-id: <562A2DA7.9060408@icloud.com> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:52:55 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:53:05 -0000 So I tested the new i915 driver on my Acer Aspire V17-791G-711B that has an Intel HD 4600 card. The problem that I have is that when I attempt to do anything that requires use of the graphics card, the system is kind of slow. e.g. when I attempt to play back a 1080p video using VLC as a regular user, playback sort of lags (using default video playback settings, the video does not play back at all). If I open VLC through a terminal window (as a regular user), I get the following error messages: libGL error: failed to open drm device: Permission denied libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 However, if I do "sudo vlc", (run VLC as root), change playback settings so they match the settings I use as a regular user, the video plays back just fine. I have uploaded the output of dmesg, one before attempting to playback video (dmesg.txt) and one after the apptempt (new_dmesg.txt). Both files are compressed with bzip2. The chosen video output for both regular and root user is "X11 video output (XCB)". Anders