Possible Fedora 11 Intel Video Driver issue.

Jason Dickerson jason.dickerson at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 05:28:19 UTC 2009


I have an IBM Thinkpad X30 that I upgraded from FC10 to FC11.  It has an
Intel i830 Integrated Graphics Chipset.  Everything worked fine on FC10 with
XAA acceleration and DRI.  After the upgrade, I am getting UXA Acceleration
with DRI2, but there is font corruption, etc...  Also, when I attempt to
play videos via Xine, VLC, Mplayer, or Gnome Mplayer; X crashes with no
error.  After a great deal of trial and error, I found that if I change the
Driver for VLC, Mplayer, and Gnome Mplayer from xv to opengl; I can play the
video.  However it is choppy and the video cannot be resized from its
original size.  Xine however crashes, even when I set the video driver on
command line.

My questions are:

1.  Is there anyone out there with the Intel i830 chipset, maybe even a
Thinkpad X30, that can confirm this behavior?  I know this is a laptop, but
the Intel video problem seems better suited to this larger audience, and
Intel video driver issues are not limited to laptops.  I could be wrong
though...
2.  It is hard for me to know if there is already a bug for this, given the
myriad of Intel video bugs that are currently open for FC11.  I would be
happy to open one, and include whatever info would be of help.  I am not
sure if there is a way to turn on enhanced X11 logging, or if there is any
other logs besides Xorg.#.log.
3.  Does anyone know of any beta kernels and/or Intel video drivers I can
try?
4.  Before I go through the effort, is it worth trying a clean install?  I
can't imagine how a clean install would help this, as the xorg.conf is
generated automatically on each start of X11, but maybe someone knows a
rational explanation.

Any and all suggestions welcome.  ;)
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