From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 18 02:10:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B72106566B; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:10:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gizmo.2hip.net (gizmo.2hip.net [64.74.207.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F5F8FC13; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (adsl-241-169-177.bna.bellsouth.net [74.241.169.177]) (authenticated bits=0) by gizmo.2hip.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8I2Ar9W037794 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:10:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) From: Robert Noland To: "Sean C. Farley" In-Reply-To: References: <20090917134924.GZ1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <20090917170431.47be4a06@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090917152957.GA1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <20090917161519.GB1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <20090917235322.GM1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <1253237945.2038.421.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: FreeBSD Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:10:48 -0500 Message-Id: <1253239848.2038.456.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RDNS_DYNAMIC,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on gizmo.2hip.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/compat6x port no longer sufficient for DRI under head? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:10:58 -0000 On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:57 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Robert Noland wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:13 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > > *snip* > > >> WITHOUT_HAL throughout ports, dbus running and the option I listed > >> above works well for me with stable/7 (r196739). > > > > Just to be clear... hald has a number of build time features and > > tweaks depending on current OS support, so I'm not really surprised > > that hald doesn't work well or correctly in David's case. > > > > hald has no interaction with drm though, other than if hald is running > > it will try to open drm and get the driver version. hald certainly > > wouldn't have any impact of X functioning or not based on the DRI > > option. > > > > The evidence so far seems to be pointing to some issue with setting > > MTRR, though I'm not exactly certain how or what is failing. > > I understand. I did not necessarily consider hald to be culprit in > relation to the DRI option. > > However, building ports without HAL may (or may not) be useful in the > situation where hald from 6.0 is being run on 7.0 and 8.0, especially > since hald has build-time specifics based upon the OS version. True, however there is a bug in that if Xserver is built without hald, it also doesn't get linked with pthreads. robert. > Sean -- Robert Noland FreeBSD