Re: Headsup: Xserver update switching Intel GPUs from xorg-x11-drv-intel to -modesetting by default coming to rawhide

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On Thursday, 12 January 2017 at 12:56, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 12.01.2017 um 12:44 schrieb Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski:
> > > Yes, we're just changing the default, if you drop a 99-local.conf file in
> > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d with the following contents:
> > > 
> > > Section "OutputClass"
> > >     Identifier "intel"
> > >     MatchDriver "i915"
> > >     Driver "intel"
> > > EndSection
> > > 
> > > Then you should get the intel driver used for any GPUs using the i915
> > > kernel driver.
> > 
> > How does one do the opposite (i.e. switch to the modesetting driver) on,
> > say, Fedora 25 running on Haswell? I'd like to test if that works around
> > a particularly annoying system freeze bug
> > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98760)
> 
> exactly the same way?
> 
> [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/02-intel.conf
> # Section "Device"
> #  Identifier  "Videocard0"
> #  Driver      "intel"
> #  Option      "AccelMethod"   "uxa"
> #  Option      "TearFree"      "true"
> #  Option      "DRI"           "3"
> # EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>  Identifier "Videocard0"
>  Driver     "modesetting"
>  Option     "AccelMethod" "glamor"
> EndSection

Right, thanks. Unfortunately that doesn't help for the above bug.

One other thing. After switching to the modesetting driver, the
xrandr output names change (e.g. from HDMI1 to HDMI-1), which should be
documented as the existing head configurations will not work out of the
box after driver switch.

Regards,
Dominik
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