Bug#428148: gxine crashes at startup with xserver-xorg-video-intel

[Jos van Wolput <wolput@onsneteindhoven.nl>]

Brice Goglin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:52:18PM +0800, Jos van Wolput wrote:
> > > From what I read, the problem only occurs when you use XAA with
> > > Composite? EXA has been designed towards compositing, so you'd rather
> > > not use XAA with Composite anyway.
> > [...]
> > I also tried EXA instead of XAA but it does not work. My fonts, icons and 
> > pictures look as if the DPI is to low (not enough pixels).
> > Occasionally (when X is restarted) they look good, but usually they look 
> > bad.
> > This problem with EXA occurs with all the versions 2:2.0.0
>
> According to upstream, this problem is really related to XAA and might not
> ever get fixed. You should just use EXA instead and forget about it.
> So I am marking this bug as fixed.
>
> If you still experience other problems with EXA as described above, with
> latest driver (2:2.1.1-1 entered unstable yesterday), please open a new bug.
>
> thanks, 
> Brice

The problem with gxine and XAA no longer occurs. Video now works well even with composite enabled!
But I still can't use EXA (even with the latest driver) as I mentioned in my message of 23 Jun 2007.

Jos
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