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mr.MikyMaus

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From: disabled

Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 285

beryl + i810 driver upgrade = mess

Hi!

After last pacman -Syu I did yesterday, i810 driver was upgraded from 1.6.5. to 1.7.3. I have ASUS laptop with integrated 945GM graphics.

No performance gain, no nothing. Just beryl stared to act unusably:
Firstly, everything looks fine. But just as I do anything involving beryl effects, shadows become white thick strokes, then windows become white and eventually, the whole screen is just one big white void.

I do not care much about performance (I have about 830FPS in glxgears, but I remember having twice more once), but if someone know what to do to gain performance, tell me:) The working state of beryl is, however, more important.

[miky@ghoulie ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep 'important stuff:)'
Section "Module"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    BoardName    "945 GM"
    BusID        "0:2:0"
    Driver       "i810"
    VideoRam     131072
    Identifier   "Device[0]"
    VendorName   "Intel"
    Option         "VBERestore" "true"
    Option       "DevicePresence" "true"
    Option       "AperTexSize" "131072"
    Option       "Legacy3D" "true"
    Option       "XVideo" "true"
    Option       "NoAccel" "false" #
    Option       "DRI" "true"      #
        Option       "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" #
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier   "Layout[all]"
    InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice  "Mouse[0]" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "SendCoreEvents"
    Option       "Clone" "off"
    Option       "Xinerama" "off"
    Screen       "Screen[0]"
    Option       "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode       0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option       "Composite" "true"
EndSection

I've tried to tweak driver options, but no success.. Google is silent on this one. Found some old threads, but none of them was helpful.

-miky

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What happened to Arch's KISS? systemd sure is stupid but I must have missed the simple part ...

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kasa

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From: Italy

Registered: 2005-07-21

Posts: 48

Re: beryl + i810 driver upgrade = mess

It's a known problem, probably related to mesa or intel driver. Downgrading to the previous libgl-dri (6.5.1-3) worked for me (compiz here).

mr.MikyMaus

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From: disabled

Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 285

Re: beryl + i810 driver upgrade = mess

OK, I was in the middle of compiling old (1.6.5) i810 driver when I posted. I had to, however, tamper PKGBUILD to use mesa 6.5.2-rc3. After install, no change occured so I suppose the problem is in mesa. I'll try downgrading libgl-dri, as you suggested...

-m.

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What happened to Arch's KISS? systemd sure is stupid but I must have missed the simple part ...

... and who is general Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?

mr.MikyMaus

Member

From: disabled

Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 285

Re: beryl + i810 driver upgrade = mess

Downgrading libgl-dri to 6.5.1 worked! Even with 1.7.3 i810 driver. I'd blame mesa for it...

-m.

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What happened to Arch's KISS? systemd sure is stupid but I must have missed the simple part ...

... and who is general Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?

WiLLiE

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 135

Re: beryl + i810 driver upgrade = mess

I'm having the same problem.

Can anyone post the old version of libgl-dri? (libgl-dri 6.5.1)
Thanks.

Edit:
Nevermind, downgraded myself.