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Hi, after installing Arch on my laptop (3 times already) now seems that everything is really going, on the right direction (hopefully) but I'm still having some issues with my video card, Intel Corp. Mobile GM965/GL960. The Driver installed was xf86-video-intel 2.2.1-2, the video card IS working, but the only problem is that everything seems to run too slow, like now I'm using Firefox (Openbox) theres 4 Tabs, when I hit CTRL+TAB to switch between them, it changes slowly, even some pages, when scrolling down to read its content, goes slow, the strange thing is that, when I run xlock the 3d screens runs perfectly (unless they're not really 3d) but all screens runs fast and smoothly, is there any tweak needed to be done on xorg.conf?? by the way down goes my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSectionSection "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSectionSection "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "xtrap"
Load "GLcore"
Load "freetype"
EndSectionSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSectionSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSectionSection "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 330 210 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "AUO"
ModelName "8174"
EndSectionSection "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSectionSection "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSectionSection "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
I tried using i810 package, but it doesn't even open xorg, Vesa package for testing, opened, but screen was kinda blurry
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You must run the i810/intel driver (xf86-video-i810 or xf86-video-intel packages) to get DRI acceleration which will smooth your graphics. The problem is that this driver only supports DRI acceleration if you run Xorg in 16 bit color depth and kernels after 2.6.21.6 crash Xorg running in 16 bit color depth with these drivers as you can read here http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7658.
A possible workaround is to compile a custom kernel with a version like 2.6.21.6 or older and run Xorg with the i810/intel driver in 16 bit color depth.
Last edited by anakin (2008-04-02 21:30:22)
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You must run the i810/intel driver (xf86-video-i810 or xf86-video-intel packages) to get DRI acceleration which will smooth your graphics. The problem is that this driver only supports DRI acceleration if you run Xorg in 16 bit color depth and kernels after 2.6.21.6 crash Xorg running in 16 bit color depth with these drivers as you can read here http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7658.
A possible workaround is to compile a custom kernel with a version like 2.6.21.6 or older and run Xorg with the i810/intel driver in 16 bit color depth.
That's really strange. I use the xf86-video-intel 2.2.1-2 and kernel26 2.6.24.4-1 at the moment, and 24-bit color depth and DRI acceleration works just fine on my X3100 card (GM965). In fact, it's been working since I got my laptop about 7-8 months ago. I posted my xorg.conf in this thread if it's of any help.
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That's really strange. I use the xf86-video-intel 2.2.1-2 and kernel26 2.6.24.4-1 at the moment, and 24-bit color depth and DRI acceleration works just fine on my X3100 card (GM965). In fact, it's been working since I got my laptop about 7-8 months ago. I posted my xorg.conf in this thread if it's of any help.
It's probably related only to some intel cards, the one I'm using is Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 02) and it behaves just like the ones mentioned on the bug report on my previous post. Using your options from the xorg.conf file didn't work either, it must be some kernel bug as reported.
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