Sheridan Hutchinson wrote: > I was very surprised to see it come through last night with a slew of > other updates in testing, so I quickly downloaded everything and began > the task of configuring everything! You're not wrong about the new > driver on the i855, it sucks, I don't use language like that flippantly :)
Note that 2.1.0 has been released today with lots of fixes for old chipsets. It will be in unstable tonight (as 2:2.1.0-1). > Performance has dropped considerably to the extent that I can no > longer use compiz and the whole thing feels really sluggish About Compiz, you might want to try: Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" in the Device section of your xorg.conf. > and given that I'm using an X40 I'm getting hard lock-ups occasionally > (although the BTS shows that is fixed in a later version). Still, I'm > hoping to weather this release out in the knowledge that things *will* > improve in the future as this driver appears to be actively developed! > > I tried to set XvMCSurfaces in xorg.conf to "7", however in my > Xorg.0.log I get: > (WW) intel(0): Option "XvMCSurfaces" is not used The manpage seems to say that it should work. But I don't have any actual idea whether it is supposed to work today or not. At least https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5329 seems to say it worked before. I found the following old upstream bug about XvMC in the i810 driver: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6409 Feel free to add some comments there. I would be good to ping the upstream developers anyway (you should post your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log too). Let me know if you need help. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]