xorg intel driver in rawhide
darrell pfeifer
darrellpf at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 19:20:52 UTC 2008
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> But the intel driver is a bit interesting. With compiz enabled I get a
> crash quite regularly. X either restarts and puts me back to the login
> prompt or locks the machine up (machine might be OK but I have no way
> to remote access it via ssh to see). It seems that the crash mostly
> happens when alt+tabbing between apps. I think that might be when most
> of the cool effects happen (firefox running seems to make that more
> regular).
There was a long discussion the other day about NMI's on Dell laptops
with the ATI driver. I suspect this is a similar problem with the X
server, only showing itself in a different driver.
>
> It also seems some of the backlight stuff is a bit weird. It doesn't
> seem to remember the settings any more. The increase doesn't work
> until you hit decrease (which initially increases the brightness) and
> then its OK.
>
> Also when compiz is turned off (maybe with it on too but it won't run
> long enough) I get a flicker every couple of minutes, sort of like a
> slight timing issue, which while not a major issue as its still usable
> it makes it annoying.
>
On my laptop at work, NV driver, when gdm starts up the backlight is
turned off. If I switch to runlevel 3 and startx then the backlight
remains on. Eventually, even with all the power manager and backlight
settings set to 'never', the backlight turns off. I have to reboot the
machine.
darrell
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