On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Daniel Quinn <danstemporaryaccount@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not sure if the arch-general is the place to ask these kinds of questions, > so if it is not, please redirect me to where this is more appropriate. > > The latest change to use Xorg-7.4 appears to have brought with it the > requirement that I switch from the old xf86-video-i810 video drivers to the > newer xf86-video-intel ones. Unfortunately, this introduces a number of > serious for my Thnkpad (x41): > > Video (mplayer) in fullscreen is choppy and slow. Complaints of my hardware > being too slow etc. > > All of my compiz-effects have suffered crippling performance losses. > > If left alone for about 15min, the screen blanks and cannot be-activated. > Switches to the console fail and the box is non-responsive on the network. > Basically the whole machine locks up. > > What is the "Arch way" out of this? I heard that the new kernel that isn't in > the tree yet is supposed to fix this, and there's also the fact that the old > config worked just fine. I'd like to go back, but I'm unsure as to how to do > so without running into this same problem when I run "pacman -Syu" again. Well if you want to roll back to the old package versions, you can use the packages in your cache (/var/cache/pacman/pkg/*) to downgrade, and then set those packages as ignored in /etc/pacman.conf (IgnorePkg xf86-video-intel). You'd really have to play around with it. Regarding mplayer playback, I'd suggest playing around with the different output types.
