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Re: modesetting vs intel in 10.0



(reviving an old tread)

On Mon 04 Sep 2023 at 20:18:49 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Earlier the screen would go black for a few seconds pretty often (like 2
> every 30), with modesetting and also intel.  I am now pretty sure that
> this was because I was running zpool scrub.  Without a scrub, I don't
> get this.
> 
> My graphics is:
> 
>   i915drmkms0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Intel UHD Graphics 630 (rev. 0x02)
>   i915drmkms0: interrupting at msi4 vec 0 (i915drmkms0)
>   i915drmkms0: notice: Failed to load DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin. Disabling runtime power management.
>   [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20200114 for i915drmkms0 on minor 0
>   intelfb0 at i915drmkms0
>   intelfb0: framebuffer at 0xc0040000, size 2560x1440, depth 32, stride 10240

Out of desperation, I pulled out my Radeon HD 5450 card and now I am
using the same graphics as you are.

> With the modesetting driver, it is also mostly great, except:
> 
>   same github comment box artifacts

I didn't test this.

>   cursor is often not quite right and it's a little confusing to resize
>   windows as the change-icon clues are a bit off.  It's like the "update
>   cursor" write calls get garbled output and then resolve.

I see this too. I

>   scrolling in firefox has text with some scan lines messed up and then
>   over a second or two they resolve.  I see this changing virtual
>   desktops to firefox also.  switching to xterms is fine.

I see this in firefox (123) menus when moving the mouse through the
menus: the highlighting of the entries doesn't get painted right away.
It kind of looks like some cached written data doesn't get pushed out to
the final destination right away. The same could explain the mouse
cursor.

nia@ suggested to run xcompmgr. It fixes the Firefox menus for me, but
not the mouse cursor. Also it breaks my use of xv (graphics/xv) to set
my desktop background (and change it every 5 minutes). I'm trying to use
feh for that now.

With this config (kernel 10 + intel hw + modesetting driver) the
x11/redshift program doesn't work any more (it works on my Thinkpad T470s
with kernel 10 + intel hw + intel driver).

-Olaf.
-- 
___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                            <rhialto/at/falu.nl>
\X/ There is no AI. There is just someone else's work.           --I. Rose

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