Daniel Quinn schrieb:
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):
Simple: i810 does not compile anymore.
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.
I cannot confirm these. I had performance issues with it, but the current version is okay (on a 945). Especially the Xvideo problems bugged me in the past.
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.
This is unfortunate, I have not yet seen a fix (Jan blamed my hardware, shame on you Jan!). You can disable DPMS blanking to work around it.
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