[arch-general] Xorg change and intel drivers make me sad.

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 15:07:27 EST 2008


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Daniel Quinn
<danstemporaryaccount at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> I'm not sure if the arch-general is the place to ask these kinds of questions,
> so if it is not, please redirect me to where this is more appropriate.
>
> The latest change to use Xorg-7.4 appears to have brought with it the
> requirement that I switch from the old xf86-video-i810 video drivers to the
> newer xf86-video-intel ones.  Unfortunately, this introduces a number of
> serious for my Thnkpad (x41):
>
>  Video (mplayer) in fullscreen is choppy and slow.  Complaints of my hardware
>    being too slow etc.
>
>  All of my compiz-effects have suffered crippling performance losses.
>
>  If left alone for about 15min, the screen blanks and cannot be-activated.
>    Switches to the console fail and the box is non-responsive on the network.
>    Basically the whole machine locks up.
>
> What is the "Arch way" out of this?  I heard that the new kernel that isn't in
> the tree yet is supposed to fix this, and there's also the fact that the old
> config worked just fine.  I'd like to go back, but I'm unsure as to how to do
> so without running into this same problem when I run "pacman -Syu" again.

Well if you want to roll back to the old package versions, you can use
the packages in your cache (/var/cache/pacman/pkg/*) to downgrade, and
then set those packages as ignored in /etc/pacman.conf (IgnorePkg
xf86-video-intel). You'd really have to play around with it.

Regarding mplayer playback, I'd suggest playing around with the
different output types.


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