From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Fri Apr 17 17:02:00 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FF92C1928; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbeich@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6074::16:84]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "freefall.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 493j7D5Lv4z4Hly; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbeich@freebsd.org) Received: by freefall.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1354) id A2AA214634; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:02:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Jan Beich To: Tomasz CEDRO Cc: Theron , Niclas Zeising , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: drm-i915kms + x11-intel eats out all of the ram and swap but not with x11-scfb References: <19d0dbdc-f1ac-22f1-6934-076bb5733ab7@daemonic.se> <24c43065-527d-499b-282a-43df2a947a1d@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:01:49 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:02:01 -0000 Tomasz CEDRO writes: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 2:41 AM Theron wrote: > >> Shame to see xf86-video-intel being treated as if it's deprecated >> software meanwhile modesetting driver lags behind it on this basic level >> of image quality. > > Wow, I also noticed a bit better picture quality with Intel driver, > but I was not sure if this is the driver thing, now it gets more > probable when also you mention it. To be honest I was a bit surprised > that it even worked :-) :-) xf86-video-intel support ends after CoffeeLake. Current version in ports/ is more than 1 year old, so maybe try the patch in bug 236003. Outside of DDX Intel deprecated pre-Broadwell support: - beignet is abandoned in favor of compute-runtime (aka NEO) - intel-vaapi-driver is maintenance-only in favor of media-driver - i965 development slowed down in favor of iris (default since Mesa 20.0.0) > I guess this new modesetting driver will catch up quickly and get into > the point of better picture quality.. maybe there is some additional > setup that could improve things already? Unlikely. modesetting reached "good enough" level while X11 is deprecated in favor of Wayland. Compared to Mesa or Wayland compositors there's little activity in xserver repo nowadays. See also https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/24 Given modesetting uses glamor picture quality may depend on Mesa. Try using more recent version, especially "iris" driver. https://github.com/myfreeweb/freebsd-ports-dank/blob/lite/graphics/mesa-dev https://github.com/evadot/freebsd-ports/tree/mesa/graphics/mesa https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23161