Re: What to do with base X11 for netbsd-9 ?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2019, John D. Baker wrote:

> I'm now running with "xf86-video-intel-2014" and it works great so far.
> I've not really stressed it yet but so far it works well with default
> SNA acceleration.  I've turned off TearFree for now to save the performance
> penalty.
> 
> [   457.198] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) G41
> 
> [   457.199] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Eaglelake (gen4.5) backend

I finally got the i82946GZ machine set up again.  It reports:


[   232.831] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 946GZ

[   232.917] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Broadwater (gen4) backend


Again, with the "new" (2019?) version of xf86-video-intel, it had the
same problems previously described (i.e., SNA is broken on these
older-but-not-old-enough chips).

With the 2014 version it works great and I can turn off "TearFree" to
save the performance hit.

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