Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:10:48 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/compat6x port no longer sufficient for DRI under head? Message-ID: <1253239848.2038.456.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909172049220.49173@thor.farley.org> References: <20090917134924.GZ1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <20090917170431.47be4a06@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090917152957.GA1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <b269bc570909170832u792f851fk4ace6bfa4c9a7321@mail.gmail.com> <20090917161519.GB1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909171319090.47101@thor.farley.org> <20090917235322.GM1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909172007020.49173@thor.farley.org> <1253237945.2038.421.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909172049220.49173@thor.farley.org>
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On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:57 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Robert Noland wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:13 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > > *snip* > > >> WITHOUT_HAL throughout ports, dbus running and the option I listed > >> above works well for me with stable/7 (r196739). > > > > Just to be clear... hald has a number of build time features and > > tweaks depending on current OS support, so I'm not really surprised > > that hald doesn't work well or correctly in David's case. > > > > hald has no interaction with drm though, other than if hald is running > > it will try to open drm and get the driver version. hald certainly > > wouldn't have any impact of X functioning or not based on the DRI > > option. > > > > The evidence so far seems to be pointing to some issue with setting > > MTRR, though I'm not exactly certain how or what is failing. > > I understand. I did not necessarily consider hald to be culprit in > relation to the DRI option. > > However, building ports without HAL may (or may not) be useful in the > situation where hald from 6.0 is being run on 7.0 and 8.0, especially > since hald has build-time specifics based upon the OS version. True, however there is a bug in that if Xserver is built without hald, it also doesn't get linked with pthreads. robert. > Sean -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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