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

[Thomas Bächler]

Daniel Quinn schrieb:
> 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):

Simple: i810 does not compile anymore.

>   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.

I cannot confirm these. I had performance issues with it, but the 
current version is okay (on a 945). Especially the Xvideo problems 
bugged me in the past.

>   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.

This is unfortunate, I have not yet seen a fix (Jan blamed my hardware, 
shame on you Jan!). You can disable DPMS blanking to work around it.


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