Changeset 6039a39

Timestamp:

08/27/2017 11:41:00 AM (7 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

8187409

Parents:

94417dc

Message:

Remove PRIME patch, augment Hybrid graphics instructions
+ one unrelated tag

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@19111 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/editors/vim.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• x/installing/xorg-config.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• x/installing/xorg-server.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "26">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "27">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "08">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2017">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 26th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 27th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -42 +42 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>August 27th, 2017</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Remove PRIME patch for xorg-server, and augment
+          instructions about Hybrid graphics in <quote>Xorg-7 Testing and
+          Configuration</quote>. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;9636">#9636</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>

postlfs/editors/vim.xml

@@ -42 +42 @@
     <application>X</application> support is automatically detected.</para>
 
-    &lfs80_checked;
+    &lfs81_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>

x/installing/xorg-config.xml

@@ -193 +193 @@
       Linux Kernel 3.4 or later (recommended). You will need latest DRI and
       DDX drivers for your hardware and <application>Xorg Server</application>
-      1.13 or later with an optional patch applied.
+      1.13 or later.
     </para>
 
     <para>
       <application>Xorg Server</application> should load both GPU drivers
-      automaticaly.  In order to run a GLX application on a discrete GPU, you
-      will need to export the <envar>DRI_PRIME=1</envar> environment variable.
-      For example,
+      automaticaly. You can check that by running:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>xrandr --listproviders</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      There should be two (or more) providers listed, for example:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>Providers: number : 2
+Provider 0: id: 0x7d cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 4 associated providers: 1 name:Intel
+Provider 1: id: 0x56 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 6 outputs: 1 associated providers: 1 name:radeon</computeroutput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      In order to be able to run a GLX application on a discrete GPU, you will
+      need to run the following command, where &lt;provider&gt; is the more
+      powerful discrete card, and &lt;sink&gt; is the card which has a display
+      connected:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>xrandr --setprovideroffloadsink <replaceable>&lt;provider&gt; &lt;sink&gt;</replaceable></userinput></screen>
+
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        With newer <application>Xorg</application> drivers, such as modesetting
+        or intel, which are DRI3 capable, the above command is no longer
+        necessary. It does no harm however.
+      </para>
+    </note>
+
+    <para>
+      Then, you will need to export the <envar>DRI_PRIME=1</envar> environment
+      variable each time you want the powerful GPU to be used. For example,
 
 <screen><userinput>DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | egrep "(OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer|OpenGL version)"</userinput></screen>

x/installing/xorg-server.xml

@@ -70 +70 @@
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
-
+<!-- Prime support is now automatically added in DRI3, and this patch
+     may break things on some setups.
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -79 +80 @@
         </para>
       </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
+    </itemizedlist>-->
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Xorg Server Dependencies</bridgehead>
@@ -128 +129 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Xorg Server</title>
-
+<!-- Patch removed
     <para>
       If you have downloaded the optional patch, apply it by running the
@@ -134 +135 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../xorg-server-&xorg-server-version;-add_prime_support-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../xorg-server-&xorg-server-version;-add_prime_support-1.patch</userinput></screen>-->
 
     <para>