Call for testing intel graphics driver fix

[Ken VanDine]

I tested this, although I wasn't having the same problem you had before.
I have an intel G965, which worked well with the current driver in main.
I did experience a bug with the driver from your PPA, which I don't
recall seeing before.  When GDM loaded, the screen was all black with a
text entry field in the middle of the screen.  When I started to type my
user name, the screen rendered.

--Ken

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 13:01 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> For a long time, X has plagued me with intermittent flicker, and
> sometimes an irrecoverable blackout on my i945 [1]. This was caused by
> pipe underruns, which were due to incorrect "watermark" calculations
> (i. e. the display rendering queue wasn't managed properly).
> 
> Earlier in Jaunty I uploaded a quickfix from upstream, but it turned
> out to be insufficient. Now upstream did a better and more robust
> patch which should fix this once and for all. It works amazingly well
> for me [2], but I'd like to get a little more confident in it before I
> upload it to Jaunty.
> 
> I put it into my PPA for now [3]. Can everyone running -intel on
> Jaunty please install this and give feedback (positive and negative)
> on the bug [1]?
> 
> Direct links for one-click gdebi installation on i386 or amd64:
> 
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/pitti/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-intel/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.6.3-0ubuntu4pitti1_i386.deb
> 
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/pitti/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-intel/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.6.3-0ubuntu4pitti1_amd64.deb
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance for testing, much appreciated!
> 
> Martin
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/311895
> [2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19304#c41
> [3] https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/ppa
> 
-- 
Ken VanDine
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