Bug#480689: Bad video performance after last update on Lenny

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

reassign 480689 xserver-xorg-video-intel
forcemerge 452896 480689
thank you



Renato S. Yamane wrote:
> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.3+10
> Severity: important
>
> After last update, my video card[1] have a bad performance.
> I need 1 second to rendering a simple window (maximize or minimize),
> and I don't use effects in my KDE (as transparency, or others).
>
> [1] $ lspci | grep -i vga
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
> 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
>
> # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i error
> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>
> xorg.conf and Xorg.log is attached.
>

EXA is the default 2D acceleration since Intel driver 2.2. Adding
    Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
in the Driver section of your xorg.conf will probably help. EXA is slow
in some cases. It is supposed to get better in the near future. Merging
this bugs with all other ones.

Brice