On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 09:20:00 +0200 > drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This is not true. While the plan is to get stop using device specific >> ddx drivers >> you do not need modesetting for "new intel processors" they works >> with the intel ddx as well. > > My understanding is that gen9 intel chipsets get modesetting, gen8 and > earlier still use xorg-x11-drv-intel. (For f24+) > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-intel.git/commit/?h=f24&id=a9366ea5d76bbbf1ff3d459f9e6c0b99acbdbcbf > That's a fedora specific patch I haven't seen yet. But given that's what we want to move to its ok anyways. >> Also XWayland only supports DRI3; and DRI3 on X is a requirement for >> Vulkan. It also helps compositors like mutter to avoid tearing and >> improves performance. So if there are issues with WebKit they should >> be fixed. "It can't work lets go back to DRI2" isn't really an option >> in the long run -- > > Oddly, I have a skylake laptop here (gen 9) and it does indeed use > modesetting driver, but I only get DRI2 (which is why I haven't seen > any DRI3 problems I guess). > > Apr 02 13:50:17 sheelba.scrye.com org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2064]: > glamor: EGL version 1.4 (DRI2): > > Is DRI3 only default for xorg-x11-drv-intel ? No. This line does not tell you much. Easy way to check for DRi3 is to run "glxinfo|grep buffer_age" ... if you have to lines in that output you'd have DRI3. As for why you haven't seen problems ... because usually it "just works" (even better than DRI2). -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
