xorg intel driver in rawhide

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:58:07 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote

> 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 is a bug about that:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435969

> 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.


I've seen weird brightness stuff with the latest drivers, but have not
yet filed a bug.
At least my brightness keys work again, so I can rectify that :)

When the screen saver kicks in the backlight goes off, and does not
come back on it's own. mplayer does weird things to the backlight, too,
sometimes setting it to full brightness, sometimes switching it off.
Strangely none of the other media players do that :)