Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 04:45:20PM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 08:34:22PM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote:
> > 
> > And translated it into the patch attached to this message. A kernel with
> > this patch boots and runs X successfully Still see a little bit of cache
> > tearing but its better than it was on 9.x (and there are some other patches
> > I've found that might address those).
> > 
> 
> Yes! This makes X work for me too.  I had gone down the rabbit hole of
> trying to get the drmkms to apply the workarounds for gen 8 to my gen 7
> GPU in the hope that it would work - it did once but never again.  I
> still have those work arounds applied, there are only a couple that are
> reported to not stick but I haven't noticed any issues yet.  Suspend and
> resume works.
> 
> Oddly, the backlight comes up at minimum brightness on resume but
> intel_backlight from pkgsrc sorts that.
> 
> I can clean up the debug rubbish and send a diff if you are interested
> to try to see if that fixes the artifacts you are seeing.

Great! Please send the patches too the tech-kern%netbsd.org@localhost in order
for the patches to be seen by the developers concerned and with write
access to the cvs.

Best,
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