Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:07:03 -0700 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: KWin no longer compositing? Message-ID: <20111024040703.GA42523@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <87ty6z2ofd.fsf@FreeBSD.org> References: <20111023230634.GA47508@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <87ty6z2ofd.fsf@FreeBSD.org>
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G'day Raphael, On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:01:10PM -0200, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> writes: > > kwin(2319): KWin requires at least Mesa 7.10 for OpenGL compositing. > > kwin(2319): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled > > kwin(2319): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Setting_up > > > > Is that a new requirement with 4.7? Compositing worked previously with > > the older version of Mesa we have in ports (7.6.1). That is going to be > > a problem since 7.6.1 is the newest version of Mesa we have in ports. > > > > Has anyone else run into this or has KWin doing compositing after the > > upgrade? > > According to a message Martin Gr??sslin sent to the KDE packagers mailing > list (sorry, no archive, the list is not public), this is a new > requirement for 4.7: at least Mesa 7.10 is required. BTW, the Mesa we > have in ports seems to be 7.4.4, not 7.6.1. 7.4.4 is the default. If you have WITHOUT_NOUVEAU defined (I do) you get 7.6.1 (see graphics/libGL/bsd.mesalib.mk). > Some references I can point to: > > 1. http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/05/the-compositing-modes-of-kde-plasma-workspaces-explained/ > 2. http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/ae63f84ba102cff532adbf403ac088522365425f > 3. http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/afe966579d56f85444c432a3a6adf026d2941bd5 Thanks. I'll take a look over these. > When I contacted Martin at the time of his announcement, he said this > verification was to ensure all the drivers used KMS (and their > development experience only went back as far as Mesa 7.7; 7.4.4 is old > enough for KWin bug reports with it to be ignored) and thus didn't break. So it seems like even the newest version we support in ports is an antique :(. I'm going to guess upgrading it is not going to be easy. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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