Funtoo Linux BDFL drobbins Posted July 28, 2019 Funtoo Linux BDFL Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 Hey Everyone, I recently upgraded to a newer Thinkpad Laptop (P1) and decided this was a good time to upgrade Funtoo's graphics stack to sort of finish the work that TemptorSent had started. You'll recall that if you tested 1.4, media-libs/mesa could be quite picky with USE vars/VIDEO_CARDS settings. This should now be fixed. One thing that bugged me when I installed Funtoo on my P1 was that video acceleration wasn't working well. So I've tried very hard to address this so that "out of the box" with minimal/no configuration, you will have good video acceleration support in Funtoo. New documentation on this system that is now in 1.4 can be found here: https://www.funtoo.org/Make.conf/VIDEO_CARDS In particular, see here: https://www.funtoo.org/Make.conf/VIDEO_CARDS/Mix-ins (This table is also included in the main page linked above.) You'll also see extensive documentation on the new VIDEO_CARDS settings that are available and all map directly to a particular graphics driver now (eliminating confusion between gallium and DRI drivers that existed.) The workstation and desktop flavors will now auto-enable Open Source Intel integrated graphics (DRI) and Radeon Gallium graphics (Gallium) -- enabling Vulkan for both. I did not enable nvidia or nouveau by default as I leave this choice of proprietary vs. open source to the user (for Intel and Radeon, the best choices are obvious so safe to enable these.) This should be a big step towards getting everyone optimal video performance in Funtoo without significant work! Be sure to give https://www.funtoo.org/Make.conf/VIDEO_CARDS/Mix-ins and the parent page a good read. And if you use firefox, play around with the h264ify plugin to optimize YouTube video playback and see if it helps reduce your CPU usage. Enjoy! AdiosKid and nrc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funtoo Linux BDFL drobbins Posted July 29, 2019 Author Funtoo Linux BDFL Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 So, it turns out I had a few little things I needed to fix -- currently running through continuous integration to ensure everything is good. Will post here when I've confirmed this. AdiosKid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funtoo Linux BDFL drobbins Posted July 31, 2019 Author Funtoo Linux BDFL Report Share Posted July 31, 2019 Everything is working well as of now ? Yesterday there were a few conflicts as I integrated mesa-gl-headers into the mix and updated the opengl virtual. All should be good now. AdiosKid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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