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Re: rendering problem with iceweasel in sid



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Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 02:30:12PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2008-12-09 14:03 +0100, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
>>
>>> The device section in my xorg.conf is
>>>
>>> Section "Device"
>>> 	Identifier	"Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller"
>>> 	Driver		       "i810"
>>> 	BusID		       	     "PCI:0:2:0"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> lspci says
>>>
>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated
>>> Graphics Controller (rev 02)
>> Do you use EXA or XAA?  Many problems have been reported in the Intel
>> video driver, the closest I could find for your problem is #491871¹.
>>
>
> Interesting thing happened, I just dist-upgraded my machine and it
> pulled in a new kernel which made my X unusable. I asked someone on
> irc about it and s/he suggested that I add the following options to
> xorg.conf
>
> 	 Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
> 	 Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
> 	 Option "ExaNoComposite" "true"
>
> That did not help with my X so I changed back to my old kernel
> (2.6.25-2) and with those options in my xorg.conf and switching to the
> intel driver instead of i810 I no longer see those boxes around
> equations in the wiki but I am still missing a few lines in that long
> list.


   Try the intel driver instead of the i810. With your graphics chip it
seems to de a better job. YMMV


Cheers




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