Re: Re: i830 dri/xv/hw cursor problems
>> I have some very unlucky i830 chip which doesn't work well even with
>> reasonably modern drivers. The problem is that when i try to use more
>> than "VideoRam 8060" memory (and that's needed to use xvideo/hw
>> cursor/dri) all the three parts fail:
>> - i see some random garbage instead of hw cursor
>> - i get blue rectangle instead of xvideo output
>> - dri is not working (on 4.3.0-2 it uses software rendering, on
>> 4.3.0-0pre1v4 it used to crash xfree)
>> - even 'x11perf -all' displays some garbage on 4.3.0-2 (on
>> 4.3.0-0pre1v4 it used to crash xfree)
>> All the releases before 4.3.0-2 used to crash very often, since i
>> installed 4.3.0-2 it crashes seldom (once in 10-20 minutes) but now i
>> see much more garbage.
>
> first, there's a known bug in 4.3.0-2, that prevents DRI from working on i386 based hardware.
> So try to upgrade to 4.3.0-3.
Tried to. Same results - nothing of the above works, including dri.
'glxinfo' gives the same "direct rendering: No" :(
> If this still doesn't work as desired for you, you could upgrade to xserver-xfee86 found at http://rphlx1.uni-r.de .
> This contains some fixes to the i830 part of the i810 driver grabbed from upstream - mainly to fix a segfault on i865g based hardware.
> It _maybe_ could fix your problems as well...
Just the same - no changes :^(((
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Alexander Barinov
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