Working combo of experimental Mesa and Xorg

Neil Schroeder gigneil at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 12:03:24 UTC 2014


Intel does work, and Intel renders Cinnamon fine, Gnome fine
Radeon does work, renders Cinnamon fine, gnome fine
Nvidia-anything works, rendering Cinnamon is broken, rendering Gnome is
broken, rendering XFCE works

I fixed my screensaver :-)


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <
jean-sebastien.pedron at dumbbell.fr> wrote:

> On 12.04.2014 12:20, Neil Schroeder wrote:
> > Hey guys, I noted you wanted to see what confgurations worked with some
> of
> > the graphics components from Xorg experimental.    Here you go.
>
> Thank you for the report!
>
> > Only thing I really can't figure out is how to make cinnamon-screensaver
> > work.  Not your problem specifically, but I feel stupid for not being
> able
> > to get a damn lock screen to actually ASK FOR A PASSWORD.
>
> Hmm, I don't know how to help on this one :-/
>
> > I also had most if not all this same code working just without the Radeon
> > 6450.  I needed my thunderbolt port for something other than DP, and the
> > Intel HD gfx wouidn't drive my 2560x1600 display from DVI or HDMI.
>
> So this monitor works with the Radeon card, but no the Intel GPU, right?
>
> I hope you'll be able to test the Intel/monitor combination when
> Konstantin Belousov will publish its work on the Intel driver update.
>
> --
> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>
>


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