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 13:38, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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.

It does fix one obscure issue I was having with Citrix Receiver Linux
client. The mouse cursor in the remote session changed to a black
rectangle when hovering over certain application windows. This is no
longer happening with the modesetting driver. Yay...

Regards,
Dominik
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