[Arm-netbook] Mali X11 for normal people?

[Johnson Chetty]

New mailing list for a10 development is here:
http://linux-sunxi.org/Mailing_list

On 30/09/2012, Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.ru> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:27:34 +0400
> "Dmitriy B." <rzk333 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> First, read god damn manual installation, there is a word about where to
>> find ump includes
>
> Hello,
>
> Yes I admit I only tried the automated installation at first. I saw a note
> which says to "download the needed libraries" and "place them manually". It
> was not clear which libraries were needed and where to place them. Turns
> out
> this simply means that some of the Manual installation steps should be
> done.
> Maybe it would be better to number all of those, and then refer to them as
> "you
> still need to do points 1) 2) and 7) from the previous section", or
> something
> like that. I understand this is a wiki, and I would gladly correct it, if I
> knew exactly what and how to correct :)
>
>> second, dont expect help about linux-sunxi here, this is arm-netbook,
>> linux-sunxi now has its own mailing list because A10 stuff was
>> overwhelming arm-netbook.
>
> Interesting, I should subscribe to that.
>
>> I'm sorry that I forgot about your request of binaries, here they are
>> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1096320/mali400-r3p0.tar, you need next_mali
>> branch kernel to run this,
>> https://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner/tree/wip/linux-sunxi-3.0/next_mali.
>> Also, dont forget to delete mesa-egl
>> (libegl1-mesa/libgles1-mesa/libgles2-mesa* *packages for Linaro)
>> libraries
>> from your system, they are usually
>> in /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/mesa-egl/ for armhf multiarch systems,
>> check ld.conf.d for sure.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> I also have managed to compile it yesterday after all, by just nuking
> everything I had, and restarting this time strictly by the Manual process
> (as they say trying to use automation only wastes time if it's automated
> not
> how you expected :)
>
> I do not have the next_mali kernel yet.
>
> Two points were observed:
>
> - the driver works (with DRI turned off), but is noticeably slower in 2D
> than
>   fbdev;
>
> - the driver does not support DPMS as I hoped. "xset dpms force off" just
>   blanks the screen, not switches the VGA monitor to its power saving mode.
>   This is despite the Xorg.log having lines like
>
> [345340.105] (II) MALI(0): MaliHWSaveScreen: ENTER
> [345340.105] (II) MALI(0): MaliHWSaveScreen: ENTER
> [345340.105] (II) MALI(0): MaliHWDPMSSet: ENTER
> [345349.000] (II) MALI(0): MaliHWSaveScreen: ENTER
> [345349.000] (II) MALI(0): MaliHWDPMSSet: ENTER
> [345351.326] (II) MALI(0): MaliHWSaveScreen: ENTER
> [345352.170] (II) MALI(0): MaliHWSaveScreen: ENTER
> [345352.170] (II) MALI(0): MaliHWDPMSSet: ENTER
>
> I wonder if these will be fixed by installing the next_mali kernel.
>
> --
> With respect,
> Roman
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "Stallman had a printer,
> with code he could not see.
> So he began to tinker,
> and set the software free."
>


-- 
Regards,
Johnson Chetty