Re: Sandy Bridge Desktop - 1920x1080i interlace not working

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:44:37PM +0100, Alfonso Fiore wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >
> > Grab intel-gpu-tools v1.1 (hopefully your distro ships it) and run the
> > intel_reg_dumper tool for both configurations (again, please ensure you
> > use the same mode for HDMI and that you don't change anything between
> > grabbing the xrandr output and the intel_reg_dumper output).
> 
> Quickly before I start running all the tests:
> 
> can you share how to compile intel-gpu-tools v1.1?
> Is source better
> wget http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools/snapshot/intel-gpu-tools-1.1.tar.gz
> or
> git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools

Latest git is always good. You can just compile it with

$ ./autogen.sh && make

and then use the tool without installing it:

# tools/intel_reg_dumper
> 
> how to compile from either one?
> 
> I have intel_reg_dumper but since intel-gpu-tools v1.1 were released 4
> weeks ago I'm sure they are not in my ubuntu.
> Plus man intel_reg_dumper says in the bottom intel_reg_dumper 1.0.
> Should I remove the previous version before compiling the new one? how?
> 
> or can I simply use 1.0?

That one's too old.
-Daniel
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