<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_28264"><span>Hello,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_28263"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_25418"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_28262">The lockdown (pkg freeze) is needed mainly on the XServer and Intel driver.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_25419"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_28261">You need to maintain Intel driver's 2.6.3 or 2.9.1 for XServer 1.7.7.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_36208"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_36208">If you've updated to hipster-2014.1, you've done well enough.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_36208"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_36207"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_36211">Thanks,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_36207"><span>Ken</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_36206"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425316138242_36205"><span><br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, March 2, 2015 6:43 AM, Nikola M <minikola@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none">On 02/28/15 04:22 PM, Jean-Pierre André wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi Alexander,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Alexander Pyhalov wrote:<br clear="none">> [...]<br clear="none">>> I think we can look at downgrading<br clear="none">>> intel drivers to something like 2.9 (or even 2.6) which still supported<br clear="none">>> UMS until KMS work is ready. I don't know how much work it'll take to<br clear="none">>> make this crap work with new Xorg server, so no promises on time frame<br clear="none">>> for now. Until then you can use vesa.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I have a computer with Intel graphics and Hipster<br clear="none">> 20140701 installed. Xorg refuses to use intel_drv.so<br clear="none">> and falls back on using vesa_drv.so, I understand<br clear="none">> this is not going to improve soon.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The fall back to vesa is totally unusable because the<br clear="none">> brigthness is forced to maximum and hurts the eyes and<br clear="none">> the slider for brightness on "Power Management" has no<br clear="none">> effect.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Is there another way to adjust the brightness level with<br clear="none">> the vesa driver ?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Jean-Pierre<br clear="none">Hello, Jean-Pierre,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I found a workaround that could be used, if everyone declares that newer <br clear="none">packages in hipster-2015<br clear="none">will not depend on newer X and Intel driver that is non working yet. <br clear="none">(and that could allow testing if it is needed when things improve.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">You update to latest hipster-2014.1 or install from 20141010 ISO if it <br clear="none">is new install,<br clear="none">or in a working BE for your intel hardware,<br clear="none">and you enter: (with pfexec or sudo)<br clear="none">pfexec pkg freeze consolidation/X/X-incorporation<br clear="none">pfexec pkg freeze x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video-intel<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And then add new repository (pkg set-publisher-g , -G to remove old) if <br clear="none">needed, and update (pkg update -v).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That way , if new packages you have installed does not depend on newer X <br clear="none">and intel driver that does not work, you get same packages as <br clear="none">hipster-2015 except X and intel driver consolidations.<br clear="none">And hopefully newer packages won't depend on them, until it is once <br clear="none">solved in illumos and you unfreeze them.<div class="yqt0001709039" id="yqtfd28241"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">oi-dev mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev" target="_blank">http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>