Mikhail Kolesnik wrote:

Hello, Chris.

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:19:33 -0500 Chris Pemberton <cjpembo@gmail.com> wrote:

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Just a word of caution for those of you upgrading this port:

Version 2.0.0 of the Intel driver, among other things, fixes a problem with video bios screen resolutions, but,in my case on a laptop, makes full screen 3D crash the machine. [...]

With the new intel driver my laptop with Intel 915GM hangs (at least keyboard, mouse and ACPI power button became unusable) sometimes during switching between xorg's zero and first screens.

At first I thought I was having a SDL problem: SDL games would ask for full screen surfaces (at a resolution other than the 1280x800 native resolution of my laptop display) and the machine would hang. I spent some time on the SDL mailing list and quickly narrowed it down to the "intel" driver version 2.0.0. Now, with the working "i810" driver, if a game wants full screen 800x600, I get a 800x600 window centered on a full screen 1280x800 black background. This is the expected behavior (at least other laptops I've had with other graphic chips do this). All I can say at this point is try the "i810" driver that is on the Crux 2.3 CD. Good luck. Chris

Alan Mizrahi wrote:

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 1:19:33 pm Chris Pemberton wrote:

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Just a word of caution for those of you upgrading this port:

Version 2.0.0 of the Intel driver, among other things, fixes a problem with video bios screen resolutions, but,in my case on a laptop, makes full screen 3D crash the machine. I have to revert back to the i810 driver that Crux 2.3 shipped with to get things working again. In addition, upgrading this port gives you two video drivers: the "i810" driver you'd expect and a new driver called "intel". They are in fact the exact same driver and both cause loss of full screen 3D (at least for me). They still include a "i810" driver so people don't have to update their xorg.conf. I don't know how the new driver behaves on a desktop machine with a CRT attached; I hope better!

I have a laptop with a intel 910 or 915 chipset (not sure), and I've been using the i810 driver since xorg 6.9. I never use 3D, but I use the TV-out all the time.

The TV-out was very unstable with the previous version, and I used to have crashes all the time. Since I upgraded, it works flawlessly.

Something very strange though is that I used to have a two desktop layout, and now I only have one (in clone mode), yet I never changed my xorg.conf, so I'll have to investigate this.

Note that the new version also fixes a bug that used to generate interrupts that weren't used (in 2D mode), so now your battery is likely to last longer. Check this link: http://www.linuxpowertop.org/known.php

Conclusion: If you have a laptop and care about battery and TV-out, but not 3D: use the new driver. If you have a desktop or don't care about battery or TV-out but you use 3D: stick to the old one.

Regards,

Alan

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I have only been able to get a cloned desktop so far with the new driver: but I remember reading something about the new driver and multiple desktops on the xorg mailing list archives. As I now use the old driver I have not looked into it further. You have to change xorg.conf or use a utility called xrandr. I'm sure a Google search of their list will show up something. Lets hope they can get the best of the old and new drivers into one driver soon. In addition, I'm starting to toy with the XIG driver: no luck getting it to work yet on my machine. I will probably not fork out $129 for the license though: unless it the performance is outstanding. The old i810 is pretty good. Chris