On Friday 27 August 2010 00:15:15 Stefano Avallone wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2010 19:05:46 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 August 2010 11:06:43 Ronald van Haren wrote: > > > so far I've seen people reporting the following chipsets to be > > > affected, but there may be others > > > intel 910 > > > intel 945 > > > intel 965 > > > ati 3450 > > > > After the update to Xorg 1.9 I had to disable compositing (editing > > ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc). I own an intel gm45 chipset. > > I tried to update to xorg, mesa and intel video driver from [unstable], > too, and found kde unusable with compositing enabled (huge flickering). > So, I reverted all the stack back to [extra]. I own an intel gm45 chipset, > too. > > Stefano I updated again xorg-server and mesa from [unstable] and compiled myself xf86- video-intel by re-introducing the patch to disable page-flipping. Now I can use kde with compositing on xorg server 1.9 and no flickering occurs... Something should have been changed in the X server between 1.8 and 1.9 that breaks pageflipping. So far, I was using xorg-server 1.8 with a self-compiled xf86-video-intel with pageflipping-enabled with (almost) no problems... Stefano
