Video playback will suffer - there is no hardware acceleration in fbdev. On the other hand, actually using the hardware video scaling in Intel has been one excellently reproducible way to hang the GPU on some people's chips.
Video scaling is the main case where hardware acceleration is faster than doing it in software. -- MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp