[oi-dev] [HEADSUP] X server update in OpenIndiana Hipster

[Jean-Pierre André]

Hi Ken,

ken mays via oi-dev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The lockdown (pkg freeze) is needed mainly on the XServer and Intel driver.
> You need to maintain Intel driver's 2.6.3 or 2.9.1 for XServer 1.7.7.

I assume you mean Intel driver 2.9.1 is compatible with
current Xorg server 1.7.7, but where is it to be found ?

The latest hipster ships with 2.99.917 (not compatible
with Xorg) and older one shipped with 2.6.3 (probably
not compatible with my hardware). An intermediate
version compatible with both Xorg server and hardware
would be nice...

Jean-Pierre

>
> If you've updated to hipster-2014.1, you've done well enough.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, March 2, 2015 6:43 AM, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 02/28/15 04:22 PM, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
>  > Hi Alexander,
>  >
>  > Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
>  > [...]
>  >> I think we can look at downgrading
>  >> intel drivers to something like 2.9 (or even 2.6) which still supported
>  >> UMS until KMS work is ready. I don't know how much work it'll take to
>  >> make this crap work with new Xorg server, so no promises on time frame
>  >> for now. Until then you can use vesa.
>  >
>  > I have a computer with Intel graphics and Hipster
>  > 20140701 installed. Xorg refuses to use intel_drv.so
>  > and falls back on using vesa_drv.so, I understand
>  > this is not going to improve soon.
>  >
>  > The fall back to vesa is totally unusable because the
>  > brigthness is forced to maximum and hurts the eyes and
>  > the slider for brightness on "Power Management" has no
>  > effect.
>  >
>  > Is there another way to adjust the brightness level with
>  > the vesa driver ?
>  >
>  > Jean-Pierre
> Hello, Jean-Pierre,
>
> I found a workaround that could be used, if everyone declares that newer
> packages in hipster-2015
> will not depend on newer X and Intel driver that is non working yet.
> (and that could allow testing if it is needed when things improve.
>
> You update to latest hipster-2014.1 or install from 20141010 ISO if it
> is new install,
> or in a working BE for your intel hardware,
> and you enter: (with pfexec or sudo)
> pfexec pkg freeze consolidation/X/X-incorporation
> pfexec pkg freeze x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video-intel
>
> And then add new repository (pkg set-publisher-g , -G to remove old) if
> needed, and update (pkg update -v).
>
> That way , if new packages you have installed does not depend on newer X
> and intel driver that does not work, you get same packages as
> hipster-2015 except X and intel driver consolidations.
> And hopefully newer packages won't depend on them, until it is once
> solved in illumos and you unfreeze them.
>
>
>
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