On 1/7/2010 9:40 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hi, folks. Just wanted to highlight some fairly major planned F12 > graphics updates going into updates-testing. > > I posted a testing request previously for xorg-x11-server, to get some > preliminary testing before it went into the updates-testing repo. The > feedback from that was positive, so a new xorg-x11-server - bumped up to > 1.7.3 and with several other changes - is now in updates-testing. > > In addition, there's a new mesa package, with a significant version bump > from 7.6 to 7.7. There's an accompanying libdrm update, and a > significant update to xorg-x11-drv-ati (radeon), the driver for ATI/AMD > graphics cards, with many bugfixes and changes. > > As graphics-related updates are prone to regressions and this a fairly > major change when you add it all up, it would be extremely helpful if as > many of you as possible could install these particular packages from F12 > updates-testing and check how they work for you. Please please report > any noted regressions to Bodhi (preferable) or reply to this thread. > Might also be helpful to know if they solve any problems anyone's been > facing - they may address some 3D issues or improve performance, > especially on ATI/AMD hardware. Thanks! > Ok - finally gave it a go. Much better than last time - a few things to note however... (8800GTS, Asus p6t deluxe v2, 12Gb, I7 920, ht enabled, vt-d enabled, 2.6.32-2 (git) nouveau (git), CONFIG_DMAR off) 1. Performance - seems slower by about 15% than current f12. glxgears, for example I get about 650FPS with F12, and about 520 with updates-testing. 2. Race on startup when booting directly to runlevel 5 with gdm & tty1 - 100% Xorg cpu. Clears after restart of X, or if booting 3 then 5. 3. Reboot required after upgrade - telinit 3 && 5 yields no visible console. Even tried removing all fb mods and modprobe fbcon... chvt (1..6), etc... nothing. Keyboard worked, but no display. OK after reboot. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
