Changeset 1432921 for x/installing/x7driver-intel.xml

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

File:

• x/installing/x7driver-intel.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

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>