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shuuichi_nitori

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Registered: 2012-12-30

Posts: 37

[SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

something weird happened when I updated my computer last night, some websites (like youtube) shows things like this and the window borders textures looks ugly like this.
I have an intel onboard video card :

lspci:
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
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this is my last update :
dir /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*

/var/cache/pacman/pkg/firefox-23.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/grub-2.00.5086-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/iproute2-3.10.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libusbx-1.0.16-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libwbclient-4.0.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libwnck3-3.4.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/lirc-utils-1:0.9.0-54-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/pixman-0.30.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/smbclient-4.0.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/tcl-8.6.0-5-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/tk-8.6.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/util-linux-2.23.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/youtube-dl-2013.08.02-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

Last edited by shuuichi_nitori (2013-08-09 23:10:34)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

I have

$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

and I have been having the same issues for some time (I'm using [testing]). My other computer uses an nvidia card and has no such issues, so I've just blamed it on the pathetic excuse for a graphics card Intel 82845G is.

Still, if someone knows how to fix this, I'm all ears.

arch777

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Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

I have this problem after update too.  My work around is to use uxa.

Just create this file: 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

with this content in it

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
EndSection

Now exit X then start it up again.  This should solve your problem.

shuuichi_nitori

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Registered: 2012-12-30

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

@arch777 thank you very much, this fixes the problem! this thread is [SOLVED]

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

I didn't suggest this because you haven't listed Intel drivers among the packages you updated.

It doesn't work for me; maybe there's some combination of UXA and some other settings (disabling acceleration etc.) that works, but I'm too lazy to chase after it.
The last time this card worked OK was with mesa 8 <sniff> <chin starts to shake, tears swell in the eyes>

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

@arch777 thank you very much, this fixes the problem! this thread is [SOLVED]

No, this thread is *not* solved. UXA is meant to go away at some point, switching to it is a temporary workaround, not a solution. The real solution is fixing SNA. But it won't get fixed if the upstream developers don't know there's a problem, so you should report a bug with upstream (freedesktop bugzilla).

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,240

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

@arch777 thank you very much, this fixes the problem! this thread is [SOLVED]

No, this thread is *not* solved. UXA is meant to go away at some point, switching to it is a temporary workaround, not a solution. The real solution is fixing SNA. But it won't get fixed if the upstream developers don't know there's a problem, so you should report a bug with upstream (freedesktop bugzilla).

The poster is far from the only one who has intel graphics rendering issues with SNA (I get rendering corruptions on some web pages in chrome) - I will check upstream to see if there are current bug reports but I also temporarily used the same workaround to use UXA. If anyone knows of specific upstream reports to follow it would be worth listing the links here.

One bug that is almost certainly related is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66990

Last edited by mcloaked (2013-08-11 14:46:24)

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Gregoire

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Registered: 2013-03-23

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

I thought : lucky me I don't have this problem (Ivy bridge 3770k with HD 4000) and then I remembered I use firefox-aurora.
Going back to "plain" firefox show also problems with youtube -> back to firefox-aurora...

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

I had issues recently with the Bodhi Enlightenment xserver-xorg-video-intel driver when using sna.  An updated driver from testing fixed the issue for me.  Check out the change log in the link below.  Note that I have not had any issues with using sna in Arch for awhile now.

http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/xo … ideo-intel

rullger

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From: UK

Registered: 2013-08-17

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

With xf86-video-intel 2.21.14-2, Enlightenment crashes for me on login. Forcing uxa fixes the issue.

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,240

Re: [SOLVED] problems with video and intel after update

Having been using the reversion to uxa for some time to fix graphics artifact issues that were occurring for my graphics chip (00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)), I today removed the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf where uxa acceleration had previously been set as a workaround.

The machine (IvyBridge) now has no graphics problems that had previously been evident when the default moved to sna.  So with sna this graphics chip now works nicely with the current package: xf86-video-intel 2.21.15-1

I don't know if others still have graphics corruption issues with the current package when using sna acceleration but it is good to be able to report that the problems I had previously with sna have been fixed as of the update to the above package.

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