Changeset 1432921

Timestamp:

11/13/2013 04:50:57 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

Igor Živković <igor@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

331f609a

Parents:

1c1dffa

Message:

Update to glamor-egl-0.5.1. Fixed text to recommend it for Intel cards as well, thanks to William Harrington.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@12210 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• x/installing/x7driver-ati.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• x/installing/x7driver-glamor.xml (modified) (4 diffs)
• x/installing/x7driver-intel.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -48 +48 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[igor] - Update to glamor-egl-0.5.1. Fixed text to recommend it
+          for Intel cards as well, thanks to William Harrington.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[fernando] - Update to gst-plugins-bad-1.2.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;4299">#4299</ulink>.</para>

x/installing/x7driver-ati.xml

@@ -90 +90 @@
       </para>
 
-      <bridgehead renderas="sect5">Optional</bridgehead>
-      <para role="optional">
+      <bridgehead renderas="sect5">Recommended</bridgehead>
+      <para role="Recommended">
         <xref linkend="glamor-egl"/>
       </para>

x/installing/x7driver-glamor.xml

@@ -5 +5 @@
   %general-entities;
 
-  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-version "0.5.0">
+  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-version "0.5.1">
 
-  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-download-http "&sources-anduin-other-http;/glamor-egl-&glamor-egl-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-download-ftp  "&sources-anduin-other;/glamor-egl-&glamor-egl-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-md5sum        "8b8c3ca4d502313df8e62c01c000e10d">
-  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-size          "100 KB">
+  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-download-http "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/glamor/snapshot/glamor-egl-&glamor-egl-version;.tar.gz">
+  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-download-ftp  " ">
+  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-md5sum        "b52cc1cadebe210cc256a9fd9523dc08">
+  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-size          "132 KB">
   <!ENTITY glamor-egl-buildsize     "13 MB">
-  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-time          "0.1 SBU">
+  <!ENTITY glamor-egl-time          "0.2 SBU">
 ]>
 
@@ -29 +29 @@
       <para>
         The <application>Glamor EGL</application> package contains a
-        GL-based rendering acceleration library for X server. It is
-        only useful if you are using newer AMD Radeon cards with
-        <application>Xorg ATI Driver</application>.
+        GL-based rendering acceleration library for X server.
       </para>
 
@@ -70 +68 @@
       </itemizedlist>
 
-      <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            Required patch:
-            <ulink url="&patch-root;/glamor-egl-&glamor-egl-version;-fixes-1.patch"/>
-          </para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-
       <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Glamor EGL Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
@@ -100 +88 @@
       </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glamor-egl-&glamor-egl-version;-fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;
-autoreconf -fi &amp;&amp;
-./configure $XORG_CONFIG --enable-glx-tls &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>./autogen.sh $XORG_CONFIG --enable-glx-tls &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 

x/installing/x7driver-intel.xml

@@ -77 +77 @@
       </para>
 
+      <bridgehead renderas="sect5">Recommended</bridgehead>
+      <para role="Recommended">
+        <xref linkend="glamor-egl"/>
+      </para>
+
       <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
         User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/xorg-intel-driver"/>
@@ -109 +114 @@
       </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure $XORG_CONFIG --enable-kms-only --with-default-accel=sna &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>./configure $XORG_CONFIG \
+            --enable-kms-only \
+            --enable-glamor \
+            --with-default-accel=sna &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -132 +140 @@
 
       <para>
+        <parameter>--enable-glamor</parameter>: This switch enables
+        new GL-based 2D acceleration. As well as specifying this in the
+        build, it needs to be enabled at run time (see below).
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
         <parameter>--with-default-accel=sna</parameter>: This switch enables
         SandyBridge New Acceleration method by default.
@@ -138 +152 @@
     </sect3>
 
+    <sect3>
+      <title>Glamor Acceleration</title>
+
+      <para>
+        Glamor is an acceleration library which uses cards' 3D capabilities to
+        accelerate 2D rendering. Glamor acceleration is not enabled by default.
+        You have to use a <filename>xorg.conf</filename> file to enable it. To
+        enable Glamor, create the following
+        <filename>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</filename> as the
+        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/X11/xorg.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal>Section "Module"
+        Load "dri2"
+        Load "glamoregl"
+EndSection
+
+Section "Device"
+        Identifier "intel"
+        Driver "intel"
+        Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
+EndSection</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+    </sect3>
     <sect3 role="content">
       <title>Contents</title>