Feedback on xvideo-xorg-driver-intel wanted

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

I had some problems with intel video chipsets, but in my case they were 
all related to 3D desktop effects and composition. I added the following 
lines to the Device section of my xorg.conf:
  Option		"AccelMethod"			"uxa"
  Option		"EXAOptimizeMigration"		"true"
  Option		"MigrationHeuristic"		"greedy"
  Option		"Tiling"			"true"

And now everything is perfect.

[]'s
Marcelo

Em Domingo 11 Outubro 2009, David Fox escreveu:
> The reason I'm basically posting here is because lately I've had way
> too many freezes on my system, to the point of it being unusable for
> production work.
>
> Sometimes I can't get through a firefox session without the system
> needing a three-finger salurte (only the finger positons have been
> changed to protect the innocent) to help it reset to a clean slate so
> I don't fry the filesystem or something (so far ext3 has been robust
> as all hell).
>
> Here's basically what I have - a put-together model from mwave
> (fairly decent overall) with a Q6600 cpu, 4 gigs of RAM, and the
> motherboard is an asus P5QL-EM motherboard, which supports an onboard
> Inetl video chip (Q33 or some such) that does the video, which is
> onboard.
>
> lspci spits
>
> 0:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset
> Integrat ed Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset
> Integrated Grap hics Controller (rev 03)
>
> I'm using Jaunty, everything up to date. It goes without saying that
> Jaunty is much better overall than Intrepid was as far as the intel
> video drivers, generallyt.
>
> But now onto my real problem.
>
> Even while running Jaunty early on, my machine would seize up every
> so often -usually it would be more than a few days between
> reboots/resets, and I could live with that, after all I get back to
> where I left off (if I don't lose work) in a few seconds. So I lived
> with it, figuring that the intel video drivers would get better, and
> I wouldn't have to slip in an nvidia card if it wasn't necessary.
>
> But lately, it freezes up many times a day, sometimes when doing
> something as simple as reading email (firefox) or watching a movie,
> or something else. (Historically, this system has remained up 24/7
> running folding @ home because I have the "oomph" - it's certainly
> fast enough to do anything for me.)
>
> The change - I inherited a beautiful 21" CRT monitor (Panasonic Pro
> P110i) which is just awesome. I can do (with a bit of googling and
> judicious editing of the Xorg config file) 1920x1440. That's my
> preferred resolution now.
>
> Before it was something like 1352x864 or something, and that was
> using a rather nice Viewsonic (E90) but that monitor went south. Of
> course, that is the crux of the problem, which is way too many
> freezes if I run at the newer resolution.
>
>
> Anyhow, here's what I'm asking for - basic advice as to what the next
> step should be. Going by experience, I could a) slap in a new video
> card, but I don't have the budget for that. I would like the ability
> to play high def video here with vlc/mplayer/whatever without having
> it be too slow, and I imagine that the onboard video chip itself
> isn't capable of doing what I want, or there's too much load on the
> CPU or system bus.
>
> Or, I could bite the bullet, and upgrade-manager -d this thing to
> Karmic right now. I am running Jaunty, and I have karmic on the
> laptop. I upgraded early on to Jaunty (about February) mostly to
> solve an insurmountable issue with OpenGL and some applications not
> being usable. Much of that is gone in Jaunty. On the other hand this
> is a mostly production box. Of course I can't afford much if any
> downtime, but this would be an acceptable solution if it fixes the
> video issue. My question here is whether or not anyone else has
> experienced this "Freezing" issue. Personally if Nvidia is the better
> option, I could plug in my spare borrowed 6200 chip which is only
> marginally better than the 6100 something I had on a now-defunct dual
> core AMD (died because of power supply and heating issues) system.
> And I had really no problems with that, once I found what the right
> driver was (173.12 something or other - maybe even 180.xx I can't
> remember, and that was Hardy at the time.)
>
> Or, I could continue to wait, until EOM and do the update like
> everyone else. Probably that would work. The only dependency here is
> getting new builds of amarok-nightly from the PPA repositories and
> not having that updated until sometime after Karmic goes live. I got
> around that issue before with a little difficulty.
>
> At this point, the third option is the least desirable because
> nothing else will change.
>
> In the past, I've gone around this issue (new drivers etc) by running
> mixed testing / unstable on Debian, and only grabbing the things that
> the intel video driver depends on and not bothering to wait if it
> ever comes into testing per se. I get the idea that doing this way on
> Ubuntu is not going to work.
>
> So, I'm just asking if others have experienced similar issues to mine
> and what you think the best roadmap for me would be now. I'm running
> Karmic now on the laptop (have been for sometime) and I still get
> some random lockups, but only with a specific application
> (stellarium, from SVN) and it's getting better all the time, but we
> have to deal with all the other changes trying to go in at the same
> time.
>
>
>
> --
> thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on your hard disk.