intel video driver problem

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Jun 15 18:08:06 UTC 2010


On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Larry Gingras wrote:

> I have a problem with acceleration features on my graphic adapter.
> I have (according to Xorg.0.log) Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 965GM 
> (it is ASUS laptop X80L).
> When acceleration is enabled, some parts of windows sometimes became garbled. 
> It seems like parts of video memory is littered. Image is only restored when 
> affected regions is completely redrawn, minimize-restore of window do not 
> restore garbled region (but image inside garbled region become different, it 
> become part of desktop or something like that).
> I tried to disable everything that use acceleration (disable composition in 
> KDE, etc), even disable DRI but if acceleration is enabled in xorg.conf this 
> bug remains. If I disable acceleration (with Option "Accel" "off") - 
> everything works fine.

Just had a user in the forums say that Option "DRI" "Off" fixed it. 
Not a great solution, but maybe better than Accel Off.

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=14995

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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