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Proktor

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Registered: 2007-07-09

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i180 driver doesn't work afer XOrg update

Hello, I've got little problem with yesterday XOrg update - after update i810 stop working - says that cannot find device. It works with intel driver but I don't want to use it - for me it is much slower than i810 (and i810 gives me amazing fast switching between virtual console and X).

Any ideas how can I force i810 driver to work?

Last edited by Proktor (2008-12-01 12:04:06)

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: i180 driver doesn't work afer XOrg update

Any ideas how can I force i810 driver to work?

you can't. IIRC the i810 driver is deprecated and does not work with the latest xorg releases.

Onyros

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From: Lisbon, Portugal

Registered: 2007-10-11

Posts: 307

Re: i180 driver doesn't work afer XOrg update

That's... very bad news. I have the same problem, and the Intel driver is not cutting it for me, too. Lotsa "legacy" i810 fully functioning graphics chips with below par performance under the Intel driver, doesn't seem the way to go, but I guess it's gotta be solved upstream.

Truly unfortunate.

monstermudder78

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Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 120

Re: i180 driver doesn't work afer XOrg update

I'm not sure where you are noticing the slowdown, but for me it worked best to just remove xorg.conf completely.  I seem to be as fast as I was before while using i810.

Onyros

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From: Lisbon, Portugal

Registered: 2007-10-11

Posts: 307

Re: i180 driver doesn't work afer XOrg update

Tried that, it worked even worse for me

Plus, I can't set the right resolution without a xorg.conf, xrandr just throws out a few possible possible resolutions, but not the monitor's native one.

Also, I do notice a degradation in performance from anything like window drawing and switching, to something like Gridwars (which cannot even draw the monitor's native resolution, by throwing out an error - lowering the resolution it does start but it is incredibly slow). Glxgears throws out a 125 fps result @ 1280x1024, which is much, much worse than it was before (60 fps without xorg.conf @ 1024x768).

There was a reason I wasn't using the intel driver before, and i810 instead.

BTW, this is all done with composite OFF. I'm using Awesome and DWM as WM's.

GLXinfo does show direct rendering as working, so I can only attribute it to bad performance of the intel driver in my hardware (Intel chipset 855GME with integrated graphics).

Last edited by Onyros (2008-12-01 16:43:49)

QuimaxW

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From: Papua New Guinea

Registered: 2006-12-03

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Re: i180 driver doesn't work afer XOrg update

I also agree, I was using the i810 for several settings that the intel configures automagically, and sets to conservativly to get the full potential from the card. I cannot update my MythTV machine until I can get the intel to do what I got the i810 to do. (Namely play 1080p video).

In reading stuff I've learned that the i810 is (part of) the intel driver, just a really old version of it. Sadly, that older version won't compile (I admit, I havn't tried very hard) with the new Xorg server.

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pyther

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Re: i180 driver doesn't work afer XOrg update

Just to let you know performance should improve once GEM support becomes official in the kernel. Rumor has it that GEM support will be in 2.6.28.

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gostal

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Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 4

Re: i180 driver doesn't work afer XOrg update

I had the same problem. I wanna upgrade to newer driver, but it doesn't work very well in my notebook, for example it freezes when I try to sleep or hibernate.

I did a downgrade of some packages (I still had the old ones in /var/cache/pacman/dpkg) and change my /etc/pacman.conf for avoiding upgrade them in a future with this line:

IgnorePkg   = xf86-video-i810 libgl mesa intel-dri xorg-server xproto xf86-video-vesa

My notebook is a Toshiba M35x-S329, if someone has any idea about that problem, let me know.

I'm running a 4-year-old desktop computer (i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz). In addition to the list above I also had to downgrade:

xf86-input-keyboard

I might also be a good idea to keep an eye on xf86-input-mouse but so far the current version seems to work. Note also that I couldn't downgrade xproto so the current version I'm running is  7.0.14-1 but I have added it to the list above.