Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:01:10 -0200 From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KWin no longer compositing? Message-ID: <87ty6z2ofd.fsf@FreeBSD.org> References: <20111023230634.GA47508@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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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 Grässlin 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. 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 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.
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