[PC-BSD Dev] Experience with Intel based graphics cards (also note about xorg-server 1.6)

[Pete]

Hiya,

> My personal laptop is a 965  intel

I feel your pain! :-)

X.org is really top of my sh*tlist at the moment.  Performance issues I  
could live with a while, it's the stability problems that's the real  
annoyance, as the graphics driver is one of the few things that can crash  
the whole system, as we know.

Experimental code is all good & fine, but it needs to be clearly labeled  
as such and go in ports as -devel, not as a damn release.  It's so bad  
with the intel driver at the moment that they've written a special  
debug/crash logging tool called intel_gpu_dump.  However, it appears only  
to be available from a git repository (  
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools ), and I've no  
idea yet if it'll compile on FreeBSD (my cynical mind suspects not).

 From what I can tell, the main advice they're giving at the moment is to  
disable dri.  May as well use the vesa driver in that case.

I've just found something that may possibly be interesting:  
http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-intel-061509.patch

It's dated 15. June, and as 2.7.1 is dated 13 May, it may be worth  
trying....

Best wishes,

//Pheet

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:16:47 +0200, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:

>
>
> Pete,
>
> You're not the only one having these issues. My personal laptop is a 965  
> intel, and its been having nothing but problems with the recent update  
> to xorg 1.6 and intel 2.7.1 drivers :(
>
> Needless to say, I'll test out your options, and keep a close eye on  
> this issue, since
> I don't want to ship 7.1.1 until we get some sort of resolution. The  
> current upstream drivers
> are completely screwed up, but hopefully this will get resolved soon :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Kris Moore
> PC-BSD Software