Hi, folks. Just wanted to highlight some fairly major planned F12 graphics updates going into updates-testing.
I posted a testing request previously for xorg-x11-server, to get some preliminary testing before it went into the updates-testing repo. The feedback from that was positive, so a new xorg-x11-server - bumped up to 1.7.3 and with several other changes - is now in updates-testing.
In addition, there's a new mesa package, with a significant version bump from 7.6 to 7.7. There's an accompanying libdrm update, and a significant update to xorg-x11-drv-ati (radeon), the driver for ATI/AMD graphics cards, with many bugfixes and changes.
As graphics-related updates are prone to regressions and this a fairly major change when you add it all up, it would be extremely helpful if as many of you as possible could install these particular packages from F12 updates-testing and check how they work for you. Please please report any noted regressions to Bodhi (preferable) or reply to this thread. Might also be helpful to know if they solve any problems anyone's been facing - they may address some 3D issues or improve performance, especially on ATI/AMD hardware. Thanks!
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On 01/07/10 07:40, Adam Williamson wrote:
Hi, folks. Just wanted to highlight some fairly major planned F12 graphics updates going into updates-testing.
I posted a testing request previously for xorg-x11-server, to get some preliminary testing before it went into the updates-testing repo. The feedback from that was positive, so a new xorg-x11-server - bumped up to 1.7.3 and with several other changes - is now in updates-testing.
In addition, there's a new mesa package, with a significant version bump from 7.6 to 7.7. There's an accompanying libdrm update, and a significant update to xorg-x11-drv-ati (radeon), the driver for ATI/AMD graphics cards, with many bugfixes and changes.
As graphics-related updates are prone to regressions and this a fairly major change when you add it all up, it would be extremely helpful if as many of you as possible could install these particular packages from F12 updates-testing and check how they work for you. Please please report any noted regressions to Bodhi (preferable) or reply to this thread. Might also be helpful to know if they solve any problems anyone's been facing - they may address some 3D issues or improve performance, especially on ATI/AMD hardware. Thanks!
Adam,
So if you are on ATI hardware is a newer kernel needed to go along with those libdrm changes? Also what about plymouth (1), it seems a newer version of it is required if you get a newer kernel. I ran into a problem with the older plymouth with getting a black screen on boot and was able to work around it by either upgrading plymouth or removing rhgb from the kernel line in grub.
Kevin
(1) http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=149605
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On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 07:51 -0700, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
Adam,
So if you are on ATI hardware is a newer kernel needed to go along with those libdrm changes? Also what about plymouth (1), it seems a newer version of it is required if you get a newer kernel. I ran into a problem with the older plymouth with getting a black screen on boot and was able to work around it by either upgrading plymouth or removing rhgb from the kernel line in grub.
Good questions. I forgot to mention the plymouth issue - indeed, you should install the newer plymouth in updates-testing along with the updated libdrm. Not sure what the kernel situation is; probably best to have the latest from updates-testing just in case. Thanks.
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On 01/07/10 08:09, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 07:51 -0700, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
Adam,
So if you are on ATI hardware is a newer kernel needed to go along with those libdrm changes? Also what about plymouth (1), it seems a newer version of it is required if you get a newer kernel. I ran into a problem with the older plymouth with getting a black screen on boot and was able to work around it by either upgrading plymouth or removing rhgb from the kernel line in grub.
Good questions. I forgot to mention the plymouth issue - indeed, you should install the newer plymouth in updates-testing along with the updated libdrm. Not sure what the kernel situation is; probably best to have the latest from updates-testing just in case. Thanks.
Adam,
The packages are working ok here. I did the following
yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xorg* libdrm* mesa* plymouth*
And I also installed the kernel(1) from koji. I was disappointed to see that r6xx firmware that provides interrupt support is not loaded in this kernel even though the firmware is installed. Otherwise, everything seems to be fine for me.
Kevin
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
it would be extremely helpful if as many of you as possible could install these particular packages from F12 updates-testing and check how they work for you.
I did
yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xorg* libdrm* mesa* plymouth*
and my desktop crashed as I was exiting firefox before logging out.
After logging in to the DE, all seems to work fine.
I'm running
2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 KDE
There is no newer kernel available in updates-testing.
I have not tried a reboot yet.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, folks. Just wanted to highlight some fairly major planned F12 graphics updates going into updates-testing.
I posted a testing request previously for xorg-x11-server, to get some preliminary testing before it went into the updates-testing repo. The feedback from that was positive, so a new xorg-x11-server - bumped up to 1.7.3 and with several other changes - is now in updates-testing.
In addition, there's a new mesa package, with a significant version bump from 7.6 to 7.7. There's an accompanying libdrm update, and a significant update to xorg-x11-drv-ati (radeon), the driver for ATI/AMD graphics cards, with many bugfixes and changes.
No change at all for intel GM45, so still working fine.
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:40:15 +0000 Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, folks. Just wanted to highlight some fairly major planned F12 graphics updates going into updates-testing.
I posted a testing request previously for xorg-x11-server, to get some preliminary testing before it went into the updates-testing repo. The feedback from that was positive, so a new xorg-x11-server - bumped up to 1.7.3 and with several other changes - is now in updates-testing.
In addition, there's a new mesa package, with a significant version bump from 7.6 to 7.7. There's an accompanying libdrm update, and a significant update to xorg-x11-drv-ati (radeon), the driver for ATI/AMD graphics cards, with many bugfixes and changes.
As graphics-related updates are prone to regressions and this a fairly major change when you add it all up, it would be extremely helpful if as many of you as possible could install these particular packages from F12 updates-testing and check how they work for you. Please please report any noted regressions to Bodhi (preferable) or reply to this thread. Might also be helpful to know if they solve any problems anyone's been facing - they may address some 3D issues or improve performance, especially on ATI/AMD hardware. Thanks!
The updates-testing packages work fine on my Radeon 9550 (R300) Mesa DRI R300 (RV350 4153) 20090101 TCL DRI2. Tested with neverball/neverputt/openarena.
However, a friend of mine is reporting an instant crash (no ssh, no ping) on a X700 (RV410 5E4D) when launching neverball. Will update as I get more information.
F
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:41:01 +0100 François Cami fcami@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:40:15 +0000 Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, folks. Just wanted to highlight some fairly major planned F12 graphics updates going into updates-testing.
I posted a testing request previously for xorg-x11-server, to get some preliminary testing before it went into the updates-testing repo. The feedback from that was positive, so a new xorg-x11-server - bumped up to 1.7.3 and with several other changes - is now in updates-testing.
In addition, there's a new mesa package, with a significant version bump from 7.6 to 7.7. There's an accompanying libdrm update, and a significant update to xorg-x11-drv-ati (radeon), the driver for ATI/AMD graphics cards, with many bugfixes and changes.
As graphics-related updates are prone to regressions and this a fairly major change when you add it all up, it would be extremely helpful if as many of you as possible could install these particular packages from F12 updates-testing and check how they work for you. Please please report any noted regressions to Bodhi (preferable) or reply to this thread. Might also be helpful to know if they solve any problems anyone's been facing - they may address some 3D issues or improve performance, especially on ATI/AMD hardware. Thanks!
The updates-testing packages work fine on my Radeon 9550 (R300) Mesa DRI R300 (RV350 4153) 20090101 TCL DRI2. Tested with neverball/neverputt/openarena.
However, a friend of mine is reporting an instant crash (no ssh, no ping) on a X700 (RV410 5E4D) when launching neverball. Will update as I get more information.
This also happens with the current xorg/mesa packages. I think it could be related to having desktop effects enabled. Anyway, said crash is not a regression.
F
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Hi, folks. Just wanted to highlight some fairly major planned F12 graphics updates going into updates-testing.
I posted a testing request previously for xorg-x11-server, to get some preliminary testing before it went into the updates-testing repo. The feedback from that was positive, so a new xorg-x11-server - bumped up to 1.7.3 and with several other changes - is now in updates-testing.
In addition, there's a new mesa package, with a significant version bump from 7.6 to 7.7. There's an accompanying libdrm update, and a significant update to xorg-x11-drv-ati (radeon), the driver for ATI/AMD graphics cards, with many bugfixes and changes.
As graphics-related updates are prone to regressions and this a fairly major change when you add it all up, it would be extremely helpful if as many of you as possible could install these particular packages from F12 updates-testing and check how they work for you. Please please report any noted regressions to Bodhi (preferable) or reply to this thread. Might also be helpful to know if they solve any problems anyone's been facing - they may address some 3D issues or improve performance, especially on ATI/AMD hardware. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net
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All's well here after a "yum --enablerepo updates-testing update xorg* plymouth* mesa* libdrm* --changelog" and a reboot. the GL neverball game is fine too.
2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation ION VGA (rev b1)
On 01/08/2010 12:50 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
Please please report any noted regressions
All is well on both my desktop and laptop computers, both Intel.
The last testing request was a disaster, which necessitated that I revert to an earlier issue, but this time all is well.
The bug is still present ( that came with 1.7.3-3 ) that Mike Chambers experienced on his Nvidia GeForce 9400 and I confirmed on my laptop which has Nvidia Quadro FX570M ( However it was not present on my other laptop which has ati r300 card ).
I assumed Mike would have filed a bug report but I guess he never did so I went ahead and filed one bug 552741 Those testers with Nvidia card and are running Gnome Desktop it would be good if you could set the Gnome panel to transparent ( you wont notice this if the panels are set to solid color )and see if you experience graphic distortion on the panel ( see picture on the bug report ). and reported back either here or on the report with what card you are using and if it worked or not. ( I think some of the Nvidia card are affected by this bug while others are not ).
JBG
On 01/08/2010 12:01 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 01/08/2010 12:50 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
Please please report any noted regressions
For me 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3300 Graphics no probs yet, 3D applications seems to be faster. No complains :-). Kind regards
Vaclav
2010/1/8 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg@hi.is
On 01/08/2010 12:50 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
Please please report any noted regressions
All is well on both my desktop and laptop computers, both Intel.
The last testing request was a disaster, which necessitated that I revert
to an
earlier issue, but this time all is well.
The bug is still present ( that came with 1.7.3-3 ) that Mike Chambers experienced on his Nvidia GeForce 9400 and I confirmed on my laptop which has Nvidia Quadro FX570M ( However it was not present on my other laptop which has ati r300 card ).
I assumed Mike would have filed a bug report but I guess he never did so I went ahead and filed one bug 552741 Those testers with Nvidia card and are running Gnome Desktop it would be good if you could set the Gnome panel to transparent ( you wont notice this if the panels are set to solid color )and see if you experience graphic distortion on the panel ( see picture on the bug report ). and reported back either here or on the report with what card you are using and if it worked or not. ( I think some of the Nvidia card are affected by this bug while others are not ).
JBG
I can reproduce this bug, comment added to bug 552741 (nVidia Corporation
C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] (rev a2)) .
No other problem found at the moment.
On Thursday 07 January 2010 14:40:15 Adam Williamson wrote:
Please please report any noted regressions to Bodhi (preferable) or reply to this thread. Might also be helpful to know if they solve any problems anyone's been facing - they may address some 3D issues or improve performance, especially on ATI/AMD hardware. Thanks!
I am using kde (4.4rc1) on a Mobility Radeon HD 3650, the more serious problem I had was when using effects on kde where sometimes when using firefox X would lock or when switching between windows with Alt+Tab. So far so good and it works without any glitches. Good work. :-)
On 1/7/2010 9:40 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
Hi, folks. Just wanted to highlight some fairly major planned F12 graphics updates going into updates-testing.
I posted a testing request previously for xorg-x11-server, to get some preliminary testing before it went into the updates-testing repo. The feedback from that was positive, so a new xorg-x11-server - bumped up to 1.7.3 and with several other changes - is now in updates-testing.
In addition, there's a new mesa package, with a significant version bump from 7.6 to 7.7. There's an accompanying libdrm update, and a significant update to xorg-x11-drv-ati (radeon), the driver for ATI/AMD graphics cards, with many bugfixes and changes.
As graphics-related updates are prone to regressions and this a fairly major change when you add it all up, it would be extremely helpful if as many of you as possible could install these particular packages from F12 updates-testing and check how they work for you. Please please report any noted regressions to Bodhi (preferable) or reply to this thread. Might also be helpful to know if they solve any problems anyone's been facing - they may address some 3D issues or improve performance, especially on ATI/AMD hardware. Thanks!
Ok - finally gave it a go. Much better than last time - a few things to note however... (8800GTS, Asus p6t deluxe v2, 12Gb, I7 920, ht enabled, vt-d enabled, 2.6.32-2 (git) nouveau (git), CONFIG_DMAR off) 1. Performance - seems slower by about 15% than current f12. glxgears, for example I get about 650FPS with F12, and about 520 with updates-testing. 2. Race on startup when booting directly to runlevel 5 with gdm & tty1 - 100% Xorg cpu. Clears after restart of X, or if booting 3 then 5. 3. Reboot required after upgrade - telinit 3 && 5 yields no visible console. Even tried removing all fb mods and modprobe fbcon... chvt (1..6), etc... nothing. Keyboard worked, but no display. OK after reboot.