Also, can sb confirm that previous versions of KDE used indirect rendering on intel chips?
yes that's very much possible. There is some information available in the upstream bug report [1] how this direct/indirect rendering stuff is/was determined.
]]>export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
in my /etc/profile but then I get the mediocre performance I always had. Also, can sb confirm that previous versions of KDE used indirect rendering on intel chips? glxinfo always showed that direct rendering was used, but I suspect this wasn't actually the case. This time, glxinfo shows that direct rendering isn't used when I hack the /etc/profile file. Anyways, I prefer to have the speed boost with the few glitches :-).
Cheers
]]>Mhh okay, META+F seems to do the trick
]]>Edit: It's OK. Just had to wait for the mirror to sync to the latest packages.
]]>Isn't ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/ the first mirror to get updated?
nope, it is just like any other mirror
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