On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 23:28:32 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:46:23PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...] > > Which graphics hardware are you guys using? I noticed regressions with > > both my intel-based systems (desktop: 82Q963/Q965, laptop: 855GM). It > > seems that the video-intel driver now uses EXA by default; switching > > back to XAA made all my problems disappear. If you use other cards it > > might be worthwhile to check the relevant manpage for changes in default > > settings or "suspicious" new options. (At least, that helped me to > > figure out what was going on.) > > lspci | grep VGA > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated > Graphics Device (rev 02) My 855GM is currently unusable with KDE and the EXA default: Icons are shown incorrectly, as are most fonts; it looks like half of the pixels have been set to transparent in a checkerboard pattern. I don't see any rendering artefacts with my Q965, but scrolling text in terminal windows (manpages, etc.) has suddenly become slow and jerky. Setting "AccelMethod" to "XAA" fixes all these issues. > I'm too lazy to test your suggestion (I switched to XFCE4 just a while > ago). It seems that these problems are unrelated to the original topic of this thread anyway. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
