Intel graphics lags on fresh install

Caspian · 2014-01-25 08:53:12

I reinstalled Arch two days ago on a laptop with Nvidia optimus. But I'm using only the integrated Intel card (and always have been using it). I'm experiencing terrible graphic lags in gnome and video tearing (added the CLUTTER option to /etc/environment for video tearing but it didn't help). The issues are very obvious especially on transparency, like activating gnome activities, dropping down of guake terminal, etc.) I've switched to UXA and it didn't help at all.
Any suggestions?

nomorewindows · 2014-01-25 13:56:15

Do you have intel-dri?

Caspian · 2014-01-25 14:00:16

Yes of course, and libva-intel-driver. I see a bit of an improvement when on UXA, but it's still very bad...

nomorewindows · 2014-01-25 14:04:26

I'm not so sure if it's required much anymore, but I still have

MODULES="i915 intel_agp drm_kms_helper"

in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.

Caspian · 2014-01-25 14:23:29

No it's not required. And all of those modules are loaded anyway (I've checked with).

nomorewindows · 2014-01-25 14:26:13

Your user is in video group?

Caspian · 2014-01-25 14:49:02

nomorewindows wrote:

Your user is in video group?

Yep

Caspian · 2014-01-25 15:01:50

I've just downgraded to the latest intel-dri, mesa and mesa-libgl from the 9 version branch (downloaded from arch rollback machine) and the issue is gone. It seems that the issue was caused by the new version of these packages. But this is only a temporary solution. I hope that it will be fixed in some future version in the 10 branch.

Caspian · 2014-01-25 15:11:44

I just saw that the clutter package was upgraded. Could the issue be caused by the combination of mesa, intel-dri and clutter? Maybe this clutter upgrade would solve the issue on the new mesa and driver version?

nomorewindows · 2014-01-26 21:53:42

You would have to do a ld on the libraries to see if they have anything to do with the problem.

Caspian · 2014-01-27 05:53:22

I've tried the new clutter version with new mesa and intel-dri versions and the issue is still present. The weird thing is that the problem occurs even with the version 9 of mesa, mesa-libgl an intel-dri but not on every boot. It approximately occurs once in every 5 boots. When it occurs there are no errors in x log.

asphantix · 2014-03-20 03:03:43

I have the same problem. Using mesa 10.x I have lags and terrible performance in games.
Downgrading to latest version of mesa 9.x solves the issue for me.

alk · 2014-03-20 07:59:56

Così fan tutte

Last edited by alk (2014-03-21 14:17:20)

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Intel graphics lags on fresh install

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