[Bug 103025] [GM45] loss of driver acceleration after some time (bisected)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103025

--- Comment #60 from Benson Bear <benson.bear at gmail.com> ---
Thanks Adric, I am going to try various things eventually but the first thing
now I want to do is use the old UXA method to see if it runs okay for a long
time without the loss of acceleration.  Then I will try various versions of the
driver with SNA and I will report back.

I also just discovered when googling around a great deal that many recommend
not to use the intel driver at all anymore.   And in fact when I checked the
drivers on a new computer I just installed fc27 on, I see it is not using this
driver although it is installed (using the onboard graphics with an i3-8100)! 
Wow, I had no idea about this.  It is using the generic "modesetting" driver
(seems to be a misleading name) and that seems to work just fine, even with
things like google earth and the like. 

I guess most of the important hardware specific stuff lies really in the kernel
side of the drivers, at least for the newer hardware.  I should try this also
on the older (onboard graphics with i3-540) hardware.  I bet it won't work but
first I want to run the UXA longer to see if gets the "acceleration dropped"
problem. 

Prima facie it seems like use SNA with the intel driver would be the most
desirable configuration however.

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