Re: amd64 DRMKMS results, 28 Jun 2014

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 09:36:24PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>    Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:25:32 +0200
>    From: Piotr Meyer <aniou%smutek.pl@localhost>
> 
>    Message from glxinfo, glxgears:
> 
>    name of display: :0
>    Unrecognized deviceID 152
>    X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>      Major opcode of failed request:  155 (GLX)
>      Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
>      Serial number of failed request:  21
>      Current serial number in output stream:  24
> 
> This is PR 48916.  The problem is that the version of Mesa we have
> right now (7.8.2) doesn't know how to handle your graphics device,
> even though the kernel and X.org driver (xf86-video-intel) do.
> 
> I'm looking into a Mesa update to fix this, but it's tricky because
> Mesa 8.0 dropped support for various old hardware that we apparently
> want to continue supporting.  So I'm thinking of updating it to 7.11.2
> which adds support for Intel Ivy Bridge graphics (like your device)
> and is the last release with the old hardware support.

7.11.2 seems to be the version already in pkgsrc...

P