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1 1.1 mrg Release 2.7.1 (2009-05-12) 2 1.1 mrg -------------------------- 3 1.1 mrg This is a maintenance release on the 2.7 branch. Compared to 2.7.0 it 4 1.1 mrg consists only of a few carefully hand-picked fixes for bugs, 5 1.1 mrg (including GPU crashers). We encourage all users of 2.7.0 to upgrade 6 1.1 mrg to 2.7.1. 7 1.1 mrg 8 1.1 mrg Bug fixes since 2.7.0: 9 1.1 mrg 10 1.1 mrg * KMS: Hook up output properties for RANDR, (this allows output 11 1.1 mrg properties to be controlled in the KMS case just as in the UMS 12 1.1 mrg case). [Zhenyu Wang <zhenyu.z.wang (a] intel.com>] 13 1.1 mrg 14 1.1 mrg * Fix multiplication error when computing required batch space. 15 1.1 mrg This could fix any number of cases where the driver did 16 1.1 mrg inexplicable things (due to having computed the wrong 17 1.1 mrg size). [Keith Packard <keithp (a] keithp.com>] 18 1.1 mrg 19 1.1 mrg * Hold reference to video binding table until all rects are 20 1.1 mrg painted. This prevent general chaos in the buffer 21 1.1 mrg manager. [Keith Packard <keithp (a] keithp.com>] 22 1.1 mrg 23 1.1 mrg * Split i915 textured video commands to fit into batch 24 1.1 mrg buffers. Video and 3D setup commands share the same batch 25 1.1 mrg buffer, so without this fix, various problems could occur when 26 1.1 mrg video and 3D clients were both heavily active at the same 27 1.1 mrg time. [Keith Packard <keithp (a] keithp.com>] 28 1.1 mrg 29 1.1 mrg * Fix crash with XV with large virtual display (> 2049). [Albert 30 1.1 mrg Damen <albrt (a] gmx.net>] 31 1.1 mrg 32 1.1 mrg * Provide missing value to 3D_STATE_VERTEX_BUFFERS command. We 33 1.1 mrg don't know that this was causing any problem, but the change 34 1.1 mrg does bring the driver into conformance with what the 35 1.1 mrg specification says the hardware requires here. [Keith Packard 36 1.1 mrg <keithp (a] keithp.com>] 37 1.1 mrg 38 1.1 mrg Release 2.7.0 (2009-04-15) 39 1.1 mrg -------------------------- 40 1.1 mrg Compared to the 2.6 series, 2.7.0 has a large number of bug fixes, but 41 1.1 mrg also a few significant features, such as: 42 1.1 mrg 43 1.1 mrg SDVO-TV support, available on ADD2 card (bug#9992) and 44 1.1 mrg D945GCLF2 board (bug#17776). 45 1.1 mrg 46 1.1 mrg Basic SDVO-LVDS support 47 1.1 mrg 48 1.1 mrg XV video display without tearing 49 1.1 mrg [Though this isn't working for all users yet, see 50 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21076 ] 51 1.1 mrg 52 1.1 mrg Various fixes for UXA, DRI2, and Kernel modesetting. 53 1.1 mrg 54 1.1 mrg We encourage users to use kernel modesetting and UXA acceleration with 55 1.1 mrg this release, which should give the best performance and 56 1.1 mrg robustness. When KMS is available, UXA is the default acceleration 57 1.1 mrg used by the driver, (EXA is the default otherwise). 58 1.1 mrg 59 1.1 mrg Known issue: 60 1.1 mrg 61 1.1 mrg Some Linux kernel versions (such as 2.6.29) are known to have 62 1.1 mrg broken PAT code that causes recent versions of this driver to 63 1.1 mrg fail, (which can manifest as the X server simply not 64 1.1 mrg starting). This can be verified by adding the "nopat" option 65 1.1 mrg to the kernel command-line and seeing the failure go away. We 66 1.1 mrg hope that newer kernels in the 2.6.29.x as well as 2.6.30 and 67 1.1 mrg above will have working PAT code. 68 1.1 mrg 69 1.1 mrg Some of the most notable bugs fixed in 2.7.0 include: 70 1.1 mrg 71 1.1 mrg [GM45 965GM] bad htotal causes panel startup failure 72 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17292 73 1.1 mrg 74 1.1 mrg [xrandr TV] need TV output property control 75 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12763 76 1.1 mrg 77 1.1 mrg [TV] "xrandr --set TV_FORMAT" gets BadMatch error 78 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16566 79 1.1 mrg 80 1.1 mrg [945 tiling] Low performance due to no A17 workaround 81 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16835 82 1.1 mrg 83 1.1 mrg [TV]Flicker when launching applications in the 2.4-branch 84 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17405 85 1.1 mrg 86 1.1 mrg [945GM FBC] FBC causes underruns & flicker 87 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18651 88 1.1 mrg 89 1.1 mrg [xv] Textured video suffers from tearing 90 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19635 91 1.1 mrg 92 1.1 mrg [G45] Random hangs with UXA 93 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19734 94 1.1 mrg 95 1.1 mrg [945GM] Any 3D app is slow in resolution higher than 800x600 96 1.1 mrg with UXA+DRI2, due to tiling 97 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19738 98 1.1 mrg 99 1.1 mrg [i915 UXA,EXA] rotation messes display with tiling on 100 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20265 101 1.1 mrg 102 1.1 mrg [G45] DRI2/UXA gives solid white instead of transparency 103 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20321 104 1.1 mrg 105 1.1 mrg LVDS output not detected 106 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20517 107 1.1 mrg 108 1.1 mrg xf86-video-intel-2.6.3: Xv crashes X server 109 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20525 110 1.1 mrg 111 1.1 mrg [G965 non-GEM] systray in KDE 4 completely broken 112 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20527 113 1.1 mrg 114 1.1 mrg [SDVO-TV]the desktop is teared in four sections on the screen 115 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20550 116 1.1 mrg 117 1.1 mrg Intel video driver 2.6.3 crashes with XVideo 118 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20563 119 1.1 mrg 120 1.1 mrg [855GM] Xv crash with non-KMS 121 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20585 122 1.1 mrg 123 1.1 mrg 2.6.99.902 breaks native 1680x1050 mode on TMDS -- EDID miss 124 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20594 125 1.1 mrg 126 1.1 mrg [945GM TV] 2.6.99.902 sets a too high CONTRAST-value 127 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20670 128 1.1 mrg 129 1.1 mrg [915GM] fail to detect LVDS with new VBT code 130 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20752 131 1.1 mrg 132 1.1 mrg [regression i965]tiled output when start X 133 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20803 134 1.1 mrg 135 1.1 mrg 2.6.99.902: LVDS wrongly detected as disconnected 136 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20826 137 1.1 mrg 138 1.1 mrg vt switching fails and crashes X 139 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20863 140 1.1 mrg 141 1.1 mrg [HDMI] The screen will flicker when some application runs on 142 1.1 mrg G45-64 143 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20875 144 1.1 mrg 145 1.1 mrg TexturedVideo is offsetted wrongly on dualhead 146 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20980 147 1.1 mrg 148 1.1 mrg [EXA] xvideo hang X 149 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21027 150 1.1 mrg 151 1.1 mrg [EXA] x11perf performance regression 152 1.1 mrg https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21029 153 1.1 mrg 154 1.1 mrg And many others... 155
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