[ubuntu-x] DRi2 intel drivers in Jaunty?

Timo Aaltonen tjaalton at cc.hut.fi
Sat Jan 24 08:10:11 GMT 2009


On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Peter Clifton wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 20:13 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Peter Clifton wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys..
>>>
>>> I was just about to write an email asking if there were any plans to get
>>> the 2.6.x intel driver into Jaunty, with / without DRI2 support, and it
>>> turns out the packages hit the repositories about 3 hours ago ;).
>>
>> :)
>>
>>> What this does mean.. is that you might start to see some reports of
>>> corrupt alpha rendering with compiz. (I've been testing locally with the
>>> new intel drivers for a while now.. and have been debugging that issue).
>>
>> Is this with UXA? I haven't seen any corruption so far on my X61 which has
>> 965GM, but using the default which is EXA. I know there are some problems
>> with UXA but haven't tried it out at all yet.
>
> Sure. I wasn't aware EXA was the released default, I am indeed using
> UXA. I've got a GM45, but the driver code-paths should be the same.

Ok think I'm seeing the same corruption.. The popup menus/windows colors 
are wrong until they are fully opened? Doesn't seem too distracting, at 
least not yet :)

t



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