On 2010-11-20 19:37 +0100, Borden Rhodes wrote: > I've spent about two hours in the man pages and on Google trying to > figure this one out with no success.
Admittedly, the answer is hidden in the Debian changelog: ,---- | xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.12.0+shadow-1) unstable; urgency=low | [...] | * Don't enable DRI2 if the shadow option is on. | * Use shadowfb on i8xx by default. Hopefully closes: #570988, #572105, | #576848, #592586, #593293. | [...] | -- Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:44:14 +0200 `---- Probably this should be documented in intel(4). > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] > #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] > #Option "ColorKey" # <i> > #Option "CacheLines" # <i> > #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>] > Option "DRI" "True" # [<bool>] > #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>] > #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] > #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i> > #Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>] > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "intel" > VendorName "Intel Corporation" > BoardName "82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device" > BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > EndSection Option "Shadow" "False" in this section would disable the shadowfb and enable dri2, at the risk of running into GPU lockups the 8xx chips are so notorious for. See the changelog snippet above for Debian bugs that you may encounter if you do that. Looking at <201008150200.52677.j...@bordenrhodes.com> from August, they may very well have happened on your system in the past. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762vrzt5t....@turtle.gmx.de