User report from xf86-video-intel-1.9.93

[Wang Zhenyu]

> On 2007.03.28 16:46:42 +0000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> > Greetings.
> > 
> > I've done some more ( limited, admittedly ) testing of the latest and 
> > greatest:
> > 
> > xserver-1.2.99.903
> > xf86-video-intel-1.9.93
> > 

oh, just be awared you're using RC3 right? Any chance to try current git
version? I did do some i830 exa fixes, which just missed RC3 release. 

I have tested your apps, thunderbird, e17 with xrender engine seem work fine.

> > Both were built by Gentoo's portage - some kind soul has added them :)
> > 
> > I'm now able to start the server with EXA enabled. Great :)
> > 
> > I can run xcompmgr, and it works, but ... well it's actually slower than 
> > XAA. Is this to be expected? I'm on an I845G with a whopping 8MB of 
> > shared memory. It's quite possible that I'm asking too much ...
> > 
> > Anyway, I have a reproducible crash with EXA enabled, when starting 
> > applications ( well, AN application: thunderbird ... I haven't tried too 
> > much else ). First I tried starting thunderbird with xcompmgr running:
> > 
> 
> Thanks for testing this. I830 fixed function pipeline did give me lot of
> trouble to make it work correct, and it's still not working stable. Some
> part of 3d pipeline is different on i845G and 865G, which I haven't taken
> care of in current code. Please stay tuned, I'll try to fix it when I have
> more findings later.