Re: Re: ThinkPad T60p X11 driver problems

[email protected] Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:49:48 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop
Message-ID	<20180813094948.GA13910@T61>

On 08/04, Bob Proulx wrote:
>[email protected] wrote:
>> Glad to see you fixed it, but a question are you running in DRI3 mode?
>
>No.  It I am sure it defaults to DRI2 mode.  (Pretty sure anyway.  I
>no longer have immediate access to that machine.  I'll see it again
>soon enough though.  If I learn otherwise later I will update this
>with a correction.)
>
>However the benchmarks I have seen (phoronix site) don't show a
>compelling reason to enable DRI3 for me.  The most pressing thing that
>machine will be doing will be the web browser.  So I will let it stay
>with the defaults.  But perhaps others should try it and benchmark and
>see if it benefits them.

Probably just me but the font rendering seems better and the screen redraws seem faster.
The reason i enbaled it was it's supposedly more stable and secure in how it access root.

>> I just found my T60p was running only in DRI2 mode and a few simple changes
>> to xorg.conf enabled DRI3
>>
>> in device section set DRI3 to True is all it needs.
>
>I assume you haven't seen any stability issues in DRI3 mode?  If not
>then that is good to hear.  Maybe they should make that the default
>mode moving forward.

It only made it in 2014 for the R500 series driver so it's kinda been ignored.
It's been totally stable for me 

>Thanks for mentioning that DRI2 is the default and DRI3 may be
>optionally enabled.  That is a good tidbit to know.
>
>Bob

YW

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regards.....

Dekks Herton

Thinkpad T61 2.0Ghz 2GB WSXGA+

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