[arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

[Georg Grabler]

I've got the same problem here. The 945 chipset works fine, the 855 here
does not. Anyway, what I did was simply installing the old intel driver :

sudo -E pacman -U
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-intel-2.4.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

So it's the intel driver which is most likely broken upstream for our
chipset. The old intel driver works perfectly with the new xorg and libdrm.

Kind regards,
Georg

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> > The upcoming version of xorg-server will have a lot of workarounds and
> > patches removed. Doing so, the package becomes easier to understand, as
> > even its maintainer has no idea what is happening anymore. When
> > upgrading to xorg-server-1.6, you will see these file conflicts on most
> > systems:
> >
> > error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files)
> > xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so exists in
> > filesystem
> > xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so exists in filesystem
> >
> > It's safe and advised to overwrite these files. The symlinks were
> > previously created from post_install by the xorg-server and nvidia-utils
> > packages. It is advised to install xorg-server first by using "pacman
> > -Sf xorg-server", after which you can upgrade the rest of your system.
> >
> > This release of xorg-server requires a rebuild of all video and input
> > drivers. Older drivers will fail to load with an ABI mismatch. Drivers
> > in our repositories will receive an update to match the xorg-server ABI.
> >
> > Nvidia has updated their latest drivers with support for this version of
> > xorg-server. AMD does not support xorg-server-1.6 yet in their Catalyst
> > drivers. AMD users are advised to switch to the xf86-video-ati or
> > xf86-video-radeonhd drivers instead, or keep any X.Org related updates
> > on hold via IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. This can be done by putting
> > xorg-server in IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. All other updates should have
> > conflicts set, so it will be clear which additional packages should be
> > added to the IgnorePkg list on your system. Note that there will be no
> > support for older versions of xorg-server when this version moves to
> > extra.
> >
> >
>
> I'm having problems with the intel drivers and OpenGL. With OpenGL
> sceensavers, I don't really know how to describe it but I can guess
> what's on the screen but it's garbled.  With some OpenGL games, I get
> a black screen.  I get the following message on the terminal:
> get fences failed: -1
> param: 6, val: 0
>
> I also get that message when running glxgears which works fine.  My video
> card:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM
> Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated
> Graphics Device (rev 02)
>
> Ask if you need more informations.
>
> Eric
>