Re: [RFC/PATCH xf86-video-intel] sna: Let modestting + glamor handle gen9+

Hans de Goede
2016-04-08T13:21:27Z

Hi,

On 11-03-16 11:07, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 29.02.2016, 16:47, Hans de Goede kirjoitti:
>> sna has no meaningfull accel for gen9+, this causes problems with i.e.
>> apps using XVideo since the sprite XVideo support does not work well
>> for many apps.
>>
>> Therefor it is better to just let the xserver fall back to modesetting +
>> glamor. This is implemented by returning FALSE from the probe methods,
>> just like how nouveau handles falling back to modesetting for newer cards.
>>
>> BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305369
>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
>
> I've been trying to make this work, but there are cases where it fails bad:
>
> # a config file with a Device section that loads 'intel' makes the
> server fail
> [ 10.153] (EE) No devices detected.
> [ 10.153] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [ 10.153] (EE) no screens found(EE)
>
> ie. no fallback in that case
>
> # with X run as root (wrapper or not), same thing different cause
> [ 145.943] (EE) modeset(0): drmSetMaster failed: Invalid argument
> [ 145.943] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [ 145.943] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
>
>
> but it does work with startx run by a user. Tests done on Debian with
> 1.18.1 and intel ddx git.

This must be some Debian specific issue, I just tried this with Xorg-1.18.3
on Fedora, with a Xwrapper.config forcing X to always run as root and it works
fine (using startx).

In that case systemd-logind integration should still work though, so it may
be that the way you are starting Xorg causes the systemd-logind integration
to not work though, and that the fallback paths for opening the /dev/drm/card#
in the modesetting driver are broken. How exactly are you starting X ?

Can you provide full logs of a failed start ?

Regards,

Hans