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PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:46 pm    Post subject: xf86-video-intel: "sna" flag Reply with quote

I'm sure that most people with an Intel graphics card have heard about SNA and how it is going to blow your socks off, but if not, the article is here. What is also important from that article is the second-last paragraph, the "PS", which states that SNA requires a particular patchset on X to work. The question is, when is that patch going to make it into mainline xorg-server? And if we enable SNA without the patch, will the Intel driver still function? Does SNA require using the classic Intel mesa driver or does it work with Gallium too? Cheers.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rsync, and enjoy... :D

The latest intel driver (2.16.0) supports sna. apparently only a xorg-server-1.10 is required.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This only works with the classic driver. Intel only works on that, while the gallium driver is being worked on by Google.

@Veldrin: So the required X patch is included in xorg-server 1.10? Can you post a link that confirms it?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am not exactly sure how to answer - even less how to test this properly.

the xf86-video-intel-2.16.0 ebuild mentions the following:
Code:
RDEPEND="x11-libs/libXext
        x11-libs/libXfixes
        x11-libs/libXvMC
        >=x11-libs/libxcb-1.5
        >=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.23[video_cards_intel]
        sna? (
                >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.10
        )"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}


building it against xorg-server-1.10.3 and 1.10.99.902 behave the same way. a quick grep reveals the following
Code:
root@xarfai ~ # grep -i sna /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 17537.084] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Broadwater backend
root@xarfai ~ #
which tells me, that it using sna.

OTOH, I am using a rather old card (00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)), so its effects might be different.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found that my desktop was unstable with sna enabled - hibernate wouldn't work, desktop effects under KDE would sometimes die and computer froze.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

using xorg-server-1.10.3, some (even all) (context) menu would not appear at first. I either had to reclick, or move the mouse over the menu to make it visible again.
upgrading to 1.10.4 fixed the problem.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mesa-7.11 made compiz segfault on my lowly laptop. Downgrading to 7.10.3 solved my problem.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i will try with my eeepc netbook with Integrated GMA 950
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me, xf86-video-intel-2.16 with sna enabled causes freezes and errors when showing characters like 'á é í ó ú' with gentoo ~amd64 hardened
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

enabling it is causing problems for me to. In KDE my computer feels extremely unresponsive and takes a few minutes to process a keystroke. Disabling it made the problem go away.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The sna flag makes the video on my system extremely buggy - as mentioned before it makes kde unresponsive to the point of it being useless, and even in a twm session xterm does not update itself without me moving the window to a different spot.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just updated to x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.16.901.
That fixed my issues with flickering videos, conky and xinerama running a compositing manager.
Like playing video on screen 1 and screen 0 being fubared.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

geki wrote:
I just updated to x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.16.901.
That fixed my issues with flickering videos, conky and xinerama running a compositing manager.
Like playing video on screen 1 and screen 0 being fubared.
That would be great, I'll try that. I have masked the 2.16.0 driver, because it causes freezes and hangups in KDE. No matter which combination I use. OpenGL +sna, OpenGL -sna, GLES +sna, GLES -sna, all cause trouble with it, while the 2.15.0-r1 driver works flawlessly with GLES. (mesa set to classic drivers, of course.)
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Veldrin wrote:
rsync, and enjoy... :D

The latest intel driver (2.16.0) supports sna. apparently only a xorg-server-1.10 is required.


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geki wrote:
I just updated to x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.16.901.
That fixed my issues with flickering videos, conky and xinerama running a compositing manager.
Like playing video on screen 1 and screen 0 being fubared.


This fixes the text corruption issue in Microsoft Word, but it suffers from a regression that affects flash such that maximizing videos on youtube doesn't work properly.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure this is "sna" related, but my tablet with old gma950 (i915) is running terribly on latest drivers (.1[6,7]).
When im using just one screen it's good (either only internal 12" screen or external 24"), but when I want both (external monitor + tablet for note taking),
everything on tablet screen is slow (2D performance, when I take note in xournal, it takes like 3 seconds to render it while normally it's delayed behind my pen only for some 50ms, its barely noticeable).
I did revert back to 2.15 and everything works smoothly again. I was hoping this would get fixed somehow in 2.17, but it's still there.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark_alec wrote:
I found that my desktop was unstable with sna enabled - hibernate wouldn't work, desktop effects under KDE would sometimes die and computer froze.


I had issues with SNA and the 2.16.0 driver too, but the latest 2.17.0 driver appears to have fixed those problems. I now have it turned on all the time.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

With sna enabled on the 2.17 driver, X crashes whenever I change resolution a second time. If I change once it's fine, but on the second change it crashes every time.
Otherwise it seems to be fine.

edit: This is with the 3.1.4 kernel and xorg-server-1.11.2-r2
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't see sna flag with "emerge -pv x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel".
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fangwen wrote:
I didn't see sna flag with "emerge -pv x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel".


sna feature is in current testing drivers (>= .16).
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shining Arcanine wrote:
mark_alec wrote:
I found that my desktop was unstable with sna enabled - hibernate wouldn't work, desktop effects under KDE would sometimes die and computer froze.


I had issues with SNA and the 2.16.0 driver too, but the latest 2.17.0 driver appears to have fixed those problems. I now have it turned on all the time.

Then I'll have a second try soon. A few weeks ago it was all a corrupted mess.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mepho wrote:
Not sure this is "sna" related, but my tablet with old gma950 (i915) is running terribly on latest drivers (.1[6,7]).
When im using just one screen it's good (either only internal 12" screen or external 24"), but when I want both (external monitor + tablet for note taking),
everything on tablet screen is slow (2D performance, when I take note in xournal, it takes like 3 seconds to render it while normally it's delayed behind my pen only for some 50ms, its barely noticeable).
I did revert back to 2.15 and everything works smoothly again. I was hoping this would get fixed somehow in 2.17, but it's still there.


I did upgrade w/o sna flag and everything works ok for me on 950 (3100 on backup notebook works with sna just fine). I'll drop the word when we stabilize new driver on bugzilla, this sna thingy seems unstable for now.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

xf86-video-intel-2.17.0-r3 will go stable soon.
sna will remain disabled by default until the major regressions have been fixed (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43144 and others)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks to everyone for their responses so far, I'd half forgotten about the issue. I just tried SNA again and although there were no horrible glitches as in the past, there were some regressions compared with non-SNA: the graphics actually felt a little slower and there was noticeable tearing. So although this is a better state than a couple of months ago, it does not appeared to have reached maturity (on my i945 chip anyway). If anyone has experienced the tearing and slow performance and fixed it, please let us know! Cheers.


On a side note, I just realized that since I don't use the Gallium driver in Mesa (although I was using Google's i915 driver in the past), I can disable a bunch of flags (gallium, llvm, xvmc), which cuts down compilation time and installation size. Bonus!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still get annoying graphic corruptions in composited KDE-4 with the SNA flag, so it remains disabled. I do test the live userspace driver and the latest drm kernel commits several times per week.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you notice any display corruption or other strange behaviour, it is a good idea to report this on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ (if no report already exists). You may also want to test latest git using the live ebuild from the x11 overlay.

I expect that Intel will drop the old acceleration method sooner or later, somewhat depending on how many issues with sna they are aware of.
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