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newsIntel sna and uxa video acceleration
About four months ago, when I released Pyro64 0.2, built from binary packages compiled in OE, there was feedback about video rendering problems with Intel video hardware.
Blog post announcing Pyro64 0.2:
http://bkhome.org/news/201705/quirky-pyro64-02-alpha.html
Forum feedback:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=110541
Today I investigated this, and found that OE has set the video acceleration to "sna", without support for "uxa". sna is intended to replace uxa, and has superior performance, but still has serious issues. The recipe file in OE:
The interesting parts are:
PACKAGECONFIG ??= "xvmc sna udev ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'opengl', 'dri dri1 dri2', '', d)}"
PACKAGECONFIG[sna] = "--enable-sna,--disable-sna"
PACKAGECONFIG[uxa] = "--enable-uxa,--disable-uxa"
I am using the "pyro" release of OE. Looking in the github repo, I found that the recipe has been changed recently:
Which has this:
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "xvmc sna udev ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'opengl', 'dri dri1 dri2', '', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "xvmc uxa udev ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'opengl', 'dri dri1 dri2', '', d)}"The problem is, as far as I can understand how these recipes work, that change will have the effect of enabling uxa but disabling sna. Really, I want both to be enabled.
Linux From Scratch explains that both can be enabled:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/x/x7driver.html
Note, there is also another hardware accelerator called "glamor":
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_2dxorg30_ubuntu1404&num=1
glamor is enabled in xorg-server, see meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/
Anyway, I have created recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xf86-video-intel_git.bbappend in my OE-Quirky overlay, with this in it:
PACKAGECONFIG_append = " uxa"
...which, again, as far as I understand how these recipes are evaluated, should cause "--enable-uxa", and we will also get "--enable-sna", although LFS explains the latter is the default.
Tags: oe