Re: netbsd 9 upgrade experience

[r0ller <r0ller%freemail.hu@localhost>]

Hi Hauke,

I bumped into an email in one of the netbsd lists of which I concluded that generating an xorg.conf and adding the option AccelMethod in the device section like this, solves the i915 drmkms issue:

Option    "AccelMethod"    "uxa"

So I gave it a try and it seems to be true :) That option is also mentioned in "man intel" but if I understand it correctly it is somewhat slower than the default "sna". But considering that this box is a bit more than ten years old with an integrated i915 (i950gma), 3gb ram and a pentium cpu, I don't care if it does not crash.

Thanks for your help though! :)

Best regards,
r0ller

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Feladó: Hauke Fath < hauke.fath%gmail.com@localhost (Link -> mailto:hauke.fath%gmail.com@localhost) >
Dátum: 2020 június 23 15:10:11
Tárgy: Re: netbsd 9 upgrade experience
Címzett: r0ller < r0ller%freemail.hu@localhost (Link -> mailto:r0ller%freemail.hu@localhost) >
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 20:19:08 +0000 (GMT), r0ller wrote:

> 3) xorg still crashes when it gets a little stress as it did in 8.1
> with i915drmkms enabled tough I hoped that upgrading to 9 will solve
> it. See xdm.log and Xorg.0.log attached.

You might be better off with wip/xf86-video-intel-git - it fixed
similar problems for me on a HP EliteBook.
But I don't know if you can run a pkgsrc X server alongside base X11,
or if you need to build all things X from pkgsrc.

Cheerio,
Hauke
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