Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:32:00 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> To: Dom F <freebsd@talk2dom.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ivy Bridge and Xorg 7.7 on i386 FreeBSD 9-1BETA: no hardware acceleration? Message-ID: <508A82C0.5030208@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5089AEEB.6050808@talk2dom.com> References: <5089AEEB.6050808@talk2dom.com>
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On 10/25/12 23:28, Dom F wrote: > I've hit this problem via installing PCBSD 9.1 RC2 albeit amd64 not > i386. I couldn't even get VESA mode to work. Similar platform: Dell 15R > SE 7520 with i7-3612QM including integrated Intel HD 4000 (GT2) and > Radeon 7730M. > > XAA acceleration was awful in that it produced approximately 5 second > lag on some events like: > > swapping desktops > bring new window to front > repainting a part of window previously obscured by another window > expanding drop-down menus (e.g. <SELECT> tags) > and more... > > With some effort I do have a good, working desktop environment now. > > I've updated to: > > Mesa 8.0.4 (libGL, dri, libGLU, libGLw) > xf86-video-intel 2.20.12 > xorg-server-1.10.6_1.1 > libdrm-2.4.31 > > This allowed me to use SNA acceleration which works lovely. > > I did need to modify the above for FreeBSD though. I can supply patches > if anyone is interested? > > I'm writing this here in case it helps anyone and also to alert the port > maintainers in case they want to bump the versions. > > It does seem like the versions I'm using are way ahead of what's even > being tested for Xorg 7.7 and there's the sticky issues about jumping up > the Mesa 8.x.x and WITH_NEW_XORG flag. Maybe I didn't need to upgrade so > far. I could try downgrading if that's of any use to anyone? To get a more resent xorg distribution than the default in ports, please add WITH_NEW_XORG to /etc/make.conf. That should give you support for more recent intel graphics cards. You can also get the experimental xorg repo using svn, see http://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg for details. The experimental xorg repo contains the latest xorg packages that has been ported to FreeBSD, and should in general work, but as usual, no guarantees. Regards! -- Niclas Zeising
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