Changeset 43149b8

Timestamp:

02/12/2022 05:20:41 AM (2 years ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Branches:

11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

9eca1ad, bfd2ba3c

Parents:

56245ff9

Message:

Update to Mesa-21.3.6, and fix several multi-threading issues in the
Nouveau driver in Mesa.

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• packages.ent (modified) (1 diff)
• x/installing/mesa.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• x/installing/x7driver-nouveau.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -45 +45 @@
       <para>February 11th, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Update to Mesa-21.3.6. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16075">#16075</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Introduced a patch to resolve several OpenGL
+          Multi-Threading issues in the Nouveau driver for Mesa. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16033">#16033</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xfce4-notifyd-0.6.3. Fixes

packages.ent

@@ -717 +717 @@
 <!ENTITY xcb-util-cursor-version      "0.1.3">
 <!ENTITY mesa-major-minor             "21.3">
-<!ENTITY mesa-version                 "&mesa-major-minor;.5">
+<!ENTITY mesa-version                 "&mesa-major-minor;.6">
 <!ENTITY xbitmaps-version             "1.1.2">
 <!ENTITY xcursor-themes-version       "1.0.6">

x/installing/mesa.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
   <!ENTITY mesa-download-http "https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-&mesa-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY mesa-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/mesa-&mesa-version;.tar.xz">
-  <!ENTITY mesa-md5sum        "054ba48eeb36b1b7a87f3f150f21f689">
+  <!ENTITY mesa-md5sum        "3177e69362d2be742596967e7f87298e">
   <!ENTITY mesa-size          "16 MB">
-  <!ENTITY mesa-buildsize     "674 MB (with docs, add 380 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY mesa-time          "3.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with docs, add 0.6 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY mesa-buildsize     "756 MB (with docs, add 389 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY mesa-time          "3.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with docs, add 0.5 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -86 +86 @@
           install the <ulink url="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">
           mesa-demos</ulink> package)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Required patch (for systems with NVIDIA GPUs):
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/mesa-&mesa-version;-nouveau_fixes-1.patch"/>
         </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -227 +233 @@
 <screen><userinput>GALLIUM_DRV="crocus,i915,iris,nouveau,r600,radeonsi,svga,swrast,virgl"
 DRI_DRIVERS="i965,nouveau"</userinput></screen>
+
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        If you are using a NVIDIA GPU in your system, a special patch has been
+        created that allows for proper multi-threading in the Mesa driver. This
+        fixes issues with multi-threaded Qt applications, as well as with
+        starting some GNOME Applications. This patch is also essential if you
+        plan to use KDE Plasma.
+
+        Apply the patch using the following command:
+      </para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../mesa-&mesa-version;-nouveau_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+    </note>
 
     <para>

x/installing/x7driver-nouveau.xml

@@ -116 +116 @@
     <sect3 role="installation">
       <title>Installation of Xorg Nouveau Driver</title>
+
+      <note>
+        <para>
+          Please ensure that you have installed <xref role="nodep" linkend="mesa"/>
+          with the nouveau fixes patch prior to continuing.
+        </para>
+      </note>
 
       <para>