Bug#451791: No problems here
I have 965 board and card
absinthe@havoc:~$ lspci | grep -i "vga"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
I never had problems with font rendering, right now I'm using
"xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.3.2-2+lenny5)" and I've been using the
"default" driver that came in Lenny ever since I got this notebook.
Only problems I got is when I tried setting up compiz, it was too
slow, from scrolling to anything else really.
After a lots of reading even though EXA should be the next (replace)
XAA, I switched from EXA to XAA. And viola everything worked fine, no
slow compiz or anything. But there was one major flaw, you couldn't
watch videos, so it was either compiz or videos. However 965 was in
compiz blacklist because at the time it could not play videos with XV.
Bug fix was announced in September-October, fix for the same driver
came and now you can enjoy videos on compiz using XV.
But due to compiz problems which I'll report in some other bug reports
I stopped using it, but even without compiz enabled XAA behaves
ideally.
For those with font rendering problems I suggest they install
"ttf-bitstream-vera" (not sure how that will help but still) and
switch to XAA and set your driver to "intel" if you haven't done so,
and all your problems should be solved.
Some of these may be obsolete but this is how my Device section looks
in my xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "DRI" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "GARTSize" "384"
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
Option "ExaNoComposite" "true"
# compiz experimental
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection
Regards,
Adnan
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