Re: Xorg from Base or pkgsrc - recommendations?

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:10:54PM +0000, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 06:46:58PM +0000, nia wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 04:20:42PM +0000, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 09:58:29PM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote:
> > > > The pkgsrc version led to segmentation faults on my Thinkpad X220 with Intel
> > > > graphics, while the version from NetBSD worked without any problems.
> > > 
> > > I think that xf86-video-intel on pkgsrc needs to be updated to the
> > > latest git. Intel stopped doing releases for it.
> > > 
> > > Additionally it has some undefined behaviour that clang strongly
> > > disapproves of, we are patching it in base.
> > > 
> > 
> > Isn't pkgsrc x using the modesetting driver on x86 and arm now?
> > I copied the patches from xsrc that cause it to be matched.
> 
> The xsrc patches should still prefer intel over modesetting.
> It was a good choice since GLAMOR doesn't work on base xsrc, so
> modesetting is dramatically worse. I suspect it works better with pkgsrc
> xorg.
> 
> I'm not sure. The Intel people said the modesetting driver might be the
> way to go. If GLAMOR works you can remove the intel driver from the
> build to get the same effect.

I don't think GLAMOR works.
Xwayland complains about it being missing and refuses to work, at least.

I think modesetting driver will be necessary in the future since it seems
that xf86-video-intel is barely on life support.