| tjaalton | bugbot <3 | 10:11 |
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| sits | hi, is it possible to build pieces of X (i.e. the intel X drivers) just by themselves? | 15:20 |
| tjaalton | sure | 15:30 |
| sits | is it as simple as copying a single binary if I just want to change the 2D driver to an older version? | 15:37 |
| tjaalton | why would you want to do that? | 15:38 |
| sits | Basically | 15:40 |
| sits | to try and bisect at which point in the intel driver git a feature was added that causes the glyph font cache on my EeePC 900 to become corrupted | 15:41 |
| sits | tjaalton: what do you think? | 15:43 |
| tjaalton | hum, it doesn't even use the intel driver | 15:44 |
| tjaalton | no wait | 15:44 |
| sits | tjaalton: I'm 100% it does :) | 15:44 |
| tjaalton | ah, GMA 900 translates to 915 | 15:44 |
| sits | indeed | 15:44 |
| tjaalton | 950 was poulsbo | 15:44 |
| sits | yup | 15:44 |
| tjaalton | well I'd rather try different kernel versions first | 15:44 |
| sits | :D | 15:45 |
| sits | tjaalton: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36326#c17 | 15:45 |
| ubot4 | Freedesktop bug 36326 in DRM/Intel "[915GM] Characters sometimes have horizontal lines through them (glyph font corruption)" [Major,New] | 15:45 |
| sits | tjaalton: so would I :) | 15:45 |
| tjaalton | there you go then | 15:46 |
| sits | tjaalton: ? | 15:46 |
| tjaalton | you've found the problem? | 15:46 |
| sits | nope | 15:46 |
| sits | see comment 8 | 15:46 |
| tjaalton | so a kernel change that broke things? | 15:47 |
| sits | see comment 7 | 15:47 |
| tjaalton | yes, confirms that | 15:48 |
| tjaalton | i just don't see your point, mind telling that? | 15:48 |
| sits | sure | 15:48 |
| sits | it is not just a kernel change | 15:48 |
| sits | it appears to be both a kernel and a driver change | 15:48 |
| sits | what I should have said is that I can use a 2.6.39-rc kernel with a 10.04 Xorg userland and not see the problem | 15:49 |
| tjaalton | yeah, should have said that | 15:49 |
| sits | using an 11.04 userland with a 2.6.34 kernel does show the problem | 15:49 |
| sits | tjaalton: I did on comment #6 | 15:49 |
| tjaalton | but you didn't point that out | 15:50 |
| tjaalton | to me | 15:50 |
| tjaalton | so yes, you can compile the driver separately | 15:50 |
| sits | tjaalton: a very good point - sorry about that | 15:50 |
| tjaalton | but if there are xserver api changes, you need to take care of those | 15:50 |
| tjaalton | though you'll find out if the driver doesn't compile | 15:51 |
| sits | tjaalton: are drivers API backwards compatible? | 15:51 |
| sits | tjaalton: that's where things get tricky | 15:51 |
| sits | I can't compile stuff on the EeePC (just too small) | 15:51 |
| tjaalton | newer ddx driver usually needs newer libdrm & kernel | 15:51 |
| tjaalton | so compile on another 32bit box | 15:52 |
| sits | right | 15:52 |
| tjaalton | assuming the eeepc is 32bit | 15:52 |
| sits | it is | 15:52 |
| sits | I'm actually cross compiling for what its worth | 15:52 |
| sits | is the ABI backwards compatible | 15:54 |
| sits | hmm perhaps that doesn't make sense | 15:54 |
| tjaalton | newer driver should compile against an older xserver | 15:54 |
| sits | ah ok | 15:54 |
| sits | wish me luck! | 15:55 |
| tjaalton | though it probably needs a newer libdrm, so you need to build that too | 15:56 |
| tjaalton | or build an older -intel with some abi-patches for newer xserver | 15:56 |
| sits | doh! I guess I'll see what happens. I think I might have install with a Xorg newer than 1.7 around | 15:57 |
| sits | tjaalton: thank you! | 15:57 |
| tjaalton | np | 15:57 |
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