Bug 98875

Summary: xf86-video-modesetting does not report DRI3 in Xorg.0.log
Product: xorg Reporter: N. W. <nw9165-3201>
Component: Driver/modesettingAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: airlied, alexdeucher, chris, john.bridgman, marcosfrm, Michael, skeggsb, tjaalton
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description N. W. 2016-11-27 17:30:31 UTC
Hi,

does anyone know how to enable DRI3 for xf86-video-modesetting?

Regards
Comment 1 Timo Aaltonen 2016-11-27 22:04:33 UTC
it's on by default
Comment 2 N. W. 2016-11-29 22:15:27 UTC
(In reply to Timo Aaltonen from comment #1)
> it's on by default

But Xorg.0.log only mentions DRI2, see:

user@machine:/var/log$ grep DRI Xorg.0.log
[    13.309] (II) glamor: EGL version 1.4 (DRI2):
[    13.952] (II) modeset(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[    13.952] (II) modeset(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: i965
[    13.952] (II) modeset(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: i965
[    13.976] (II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 0

Why doesn't it say anything about DRI3? When enabling DRI3 in xf86-video-intel for example, Xorg.0.log lists DRI3, but with xf86-video-modesetting it does not (see above).
Comment 3 Mike Russo 2017-01-11 19:42:10 UTC
Try running this command from a bash prompt:

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo | grep -i libgl 

Whether I use modesetting or intel with DRI3 enabled, I get:

libGL: Using DRI3 for screen 0

(BTW I was just as confused as you about why I didn't see DRI3 in the Xorg log before I found someone who quoted this command. I think that the modesetting driver just isn't programmed to print it out properly.)
Comment 4 Marcos Mello 2017-11-02 16:24:32 UTC
While a cosmetic issue, it is very confusing indeed. Please keep this bug open. It needs fixing.
Comment 5 mercuriete 2018-05-05 11:21:33 UTC
still happen in xorg drivers 1.19
Comment 6 GitLab Migration User 2018-12-13 18:10:43 UTC
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