From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Xorg tearing fix on Intel HD Graphics 4000
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 23:48:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shh36od2.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87injkiatt.fsf@netris.org>
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> If we want to make UXA the default acceleration method for
> xf86-video-intel, I've attached a patch that accomplishes this without
> overriding auto-configuration. Given the severity of the problems on
> the X200, I would be in favor of applying this patch to master. The
> X200 is an important system for us because it is one of only two
> RYF-certified laptops.
On X200 this patch introduces the bug I described here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101620#c4
> FWIW, I do not notice any visually apparent difference in performance
> between UXA and SNA on the X200 for things like web browsing, watching
> videos, and running gnome-shell. Nonetheless, I've seen reports that
> SNA performs significantly better than UXA, at least on newer Intel
> chips:
>
> http://cynic.cc/blog/posts/sna_acceleration_vs_uxa/
> https://ickle.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/and-over-in-the-red-corner/
> https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/17sy9l/intel_graphics_uxa_vs_sna/
>
> I would invite someone who cares about this to enhance
> 'xorg-configuration-file' in (gnu services xorg) to allow users to
> optionally specify which accel-method to use for each driver.
That would be useful indeed, I will have a look at it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-07 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-21 7:55 Xorg tearing fix on Intel HD Graphics 4000 Roel Janssen
2017-06-21 10:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-21 13:26 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-21 16:27 ` Kei Kebreau
2017-06-21 17:23 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-21 22:21 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-21 23:23 ` William
2017-06-25 11:59 ` Marius Bakke
2017-06-25 17:13 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-25 17:39 ` Marius Bakke
2017-06-25 5:47 ` Chris Marusich
2017-06-25 8:31 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-25 11:38 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-25 11:08 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-08-07 21:48 ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
2017-06-25 5:46 ` Chris Marusich
2017-06-25 8:28 ` Roel Janssen
2017-07-20 2:43 ` Chris Marusich
2017-07-20 10:57 ` Roel Janssen
2017-06-23 18:00 ` Christopher Baines
2017-06-26 8:55 ` Andy Wingo
2017-06-27 17:43 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-28 8:24 ` Andy Wingo
2017-06-28 18:14 ` Mark H Weaver
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