Intel driver on Ubuntu 8.10

I'm running an 945GM on Ubuntu 8.10 which uses version 2.4.1 of the Intel driver. I'm getting occasional tearing on HD video that I didn't get on Ubuntu 8.04. I've seen some reports of tearing on this list, but don't known if there is a known problem in 2.4.1. I would build Intel 2.5 and give i

XV performance problem on Ubuntu 9.04 Intel 915/945

I've upgraded a few laptops that from Ubuntu 8,10 to 9.04. These have either Intel 915 or 945 graphics chips. . The xvideo performance has gotten much worse after the upgrade. The video is jumpy at 720p or 1080i where it wasn't before. I'm guessing that this is because of the Intel Xorg driver wh

Bad Alloc with Radeon

I'm running an old thinkpad X22 with a RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c59) /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 6.12.1 I get Bad Alloc running any HD video on Linux. However, on Windows vlc manages to play

Broadcom Crystal HD

I know there is a Linux driver for the chip, and XBMC knows how to use it. However, would it make any sense to have an xvideo driver that knows about it, so that arbitrary xvideo apps could use it? ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http:/

Xvideo Performance Regression

Recently I went from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) to 10.04 (Lucid) on a Pentium M / Intel 855GME laptop, and the Xvideo performance significantly got worse, Both can handle 720P, but karmic can handle 1080 and Lucid can't. On the 1080 video on Karmic I see Xorg at 12% of the cpu with 20% idle headro