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randomshinichi

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Registered: 2006-10-23

Posts: 12

BUG: xf86-video-intel locks system completely

If you use xf86-video-intel, run X, and play around with XFCE4's compositor, it locks up the system completely when you switch to a virtual console. Linux 2.6.22-ARCH/2.6.23-ARCH, 945GM Express. Compal GL31.

xf86-video-i810 behaves so much better.

J_Zar

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From: Villa Santina (UD), Italy

Registered: 2006-09-19

Posts: 36

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Re: BUG: xf86-video-intel locks system completely

Confirmed. The Intel driver is totally a shit. No improvements and a lot of bugs. Use i810 instead.

miggols99

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 424

Re: BUG: xf86-video-intel locks system completely

Mine's working fine...I don't see why everyone is complaining about it.

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J_Zar

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From: Villa Santina (UD), Italy

Registered: 2006-09-19

Posts: 36

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Re: BUG: xf86-video-intel locks system completely

Mine's working fine...I don't see why everyone is complaining about it.

Maybe you are lucky?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: BUG: xf86-video-intel locks system completely

This is because the XOrg developers goofed and decided to make EXA the default hardware accel method. If you use XAA instead, the crashes will disappear.

Just put

Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf under the Device section. Problem solved, with pretty much no ill effects - EXA isn't noticably faster than XAA, and these days people use AIGLX+Compiz instead of compositing manager crap.

(FWIW you guys don't need to file a bug report on this, I already did and this is the answer I got. As for XOrg devs making unstable stuff the default... Well, I'll just say I hope DirectFB development picks up. )

craw

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Registered: 2005-01-06

Posts: 29

Re: BUG: xf86-video-intel locks system completely

Thanks a lot for that, Gullible Jones.

But i am still getting random lockups on my i855gme when shutting down/restarting xorg... this is starting to bore me somehow

Last edited by craw (2008-01-21 23:20:16)

Agent69

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Registered: 2006-05-26

Posts: 189

Re: BUG: xf86-video-intel locks system completely

Personally, I have had a good experience with Xorg and the Intel driver on my X3000. Of course, my usage of X11 may have something to do with that.

craw

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Registered: 2005-01-06

Posts: 29

Re: BUG: xf86-video-intel locks system completely

The current version of the driver:

extra/xf86-video-intel 2.2.0-2

seems to solve the system lockups i have had, though 2.2.0-1 did not.
But 3d performance is too bad with EXA, switching to XAA by adding

Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

to my xorg.conf then did the trick.