xf86-video-intel

[Protas Oleksiy]

Hello again.
Thank you all for advices, upgrading xorg did help. Though there are
some rare glitches and the performance is lower than in XP on the same
card, overally it's usable for my purpose and is very stable. Thanks a
lot.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep  4, 2008 at 17:07:29 +0000, Oleksiy Protas wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have some difficulties with the driver and I want to know how can
>> one make some indepth diagnosis to file a bug or there is a solution.
>> Secondly, I am wondering why the laptop has two video controllers:
>> 0.2.0 and 0.2.1, and what they can be used for?
>
> It just exposes two because some versions of windows need that, as I
> understand it.  The second one is actually dummy.
>
>> What do I have so far:
>> xorg-server — 1.3.0.0-r6
>> mesa — 7.0.3
>> xf86-video-intel — 2.4.2
>> libdrm — 2.3.0
>> kernel — 2.6.25-r7, gentoo patchset
>> Gentoo Linux
>>
>> EXA mode: after 5 seconds windows fail to update, switching focus
>> redraws them but not solves the issues.
>
> xserver 1.3 is old, exa has improved a lot since then.
>
>> name of display: :0.0
>> libGL error: drmMap of framebuffer failed (Invalid argument)
>> libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
>
> Again, should be fixed by upgrading the server.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
>



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Protas Oleksiy
National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ukraine