Bug 1496252 - xorg-x11-drv-intel heavily outdated
Summary: xorg-x11-drv-intel heavily outdated
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2017-09-26 19:10 UTC by Clemens Eisserer
Modified: 2018-05-29 12:02 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-31.20171025.fc27
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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 12:02:24 UTC
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Description Clemens Eisserer 2017-09-26 19:10:24 UTC
Description of problem:

The package xorg-x11-drv-intel is heavily outdated, according to the RPM version it is based on a git snapshot almost a year old. I currently experience crashes when using Libreoffice with SNA enabled, which most likely have been fixed upstream a while ago.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-28.20160929.fc26.x86_64

Although on newer hardware modesetting+glamor is a viable alternative to asic specific 2d drivers, this approach does not work well on older hardware (<= gen5).

On my Core-i5-640M powered Elitebook, glamor is noticable slower than SNA - especially when using "heavy" applications such as libreoffice or eclipse.

Comment 1 Clemens Eisserer 2017-10-24 19:16:14 UTC
Worse, even Fedora-27 ships with the same outdated intel package from 20160929 - almost one and a half year old when fedora 27 will be released.

Comment 2 Sergio Basto 2017-10-25 11:55:01 UTC
Please read : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413251

Since F26 xorg-x11-server defaults to use modeset driver instead of 
intel.

Comment 3 Clemens Eisserer 2017-10-25 12:15:55 UTC
1. As mentioned in the initial report, modeset is using opengl for 2d accaleration (glamor) - which does not work that well for older intel chipsets (gen4, gen5).

2. Furthermore, gen2 (i845) and the still quite common gen3 (i915, i945) are still using xorg-x11-drv-intel, because glamor requires pixel shaders which gen2 does not support at all and gen3 not in a glsl compliant way.

Comment 4 Susi Lehtola 2017-10-25 13:47:43 UTC
Hm, Intel's 2017Q2 driver stack released on July 18 still seems to come with xf86-video-intel version 2.99.917. That is, the same version that is already packaged in Fedora. See

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2017q2-intel-graphics-stack-recipe

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2017-10-25 14:47:38 UTC
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-31.20171025.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-76c3412bd3

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-10-27 18:48:08 UTC
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-31.20171025.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-76c3412bd3

Comment 7 Sergio Basto 2017-10-28 01:05:00 UTC
(In reply to Clemens Eisserer from comment #3)
> 1. As mentioned in the initial report, modeset is using opengl for 2d
> accaleration (glamor) - which does not work that well for older intel
> chipsets (gen4, gen5).

I have one Ironlake (gen5), I'm trying understand why after 2 or 3 days or one week of work and using suspend 2 or 3 times per day , my laptop have huge slowdowns [1] some processes use more that 100% of CPU and gets very hot, my latest tests says that modeset works better but not for sure ..., so I may try this update on F26 , thanks for yours explanations . 



[1] 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413251#c7

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2017-11-11 03:05:16 UTC
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-31.20171025.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Sergio Basto 2018-02-27 00:30:49 UTC
I built the same xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-31.20171025 src.rpm for F26 [1] and after 4 months I can say that it works much better, I almost forget the problems with graphics , So please update xorg-x11-drv-intel from 2.99.917-28.20160929.fc26 to xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-31.20171025.fc26

Thanks.

[1]
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sergiomb/builds_for_Stable_Releases/package/xorg-x11-drv-intel/

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