On Thursday, 19 July 2018 at 16:31, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: > Hello, > > I recently upgraded my computer to Fedora 28 and experienced some > strange behaviour with the cinnamon deskop when having two screens. > On the second screen there was a black "border" around windows (eg > terminals) that was flickering and expanding eg when the mouse was > moving.... > > This was somewhat unpleasant but manageable... Today, it started > bothering me a little, so I did a little search and found (rather easily > once I had the right keywords): > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/VA-API_1.0.0 > > which clearly states that for intel graphic cards, it is necessary to > install libva-intel-driver which is only available from rpmfusion-free. > In my case, it was not installed, so I guess the troubles were coming > from the software rendering... > > What I find strange is that fedora 28 depends (in my configuration with > the two external screen configuration, which is probably not that > common) on something which is outside it repositories to properly > function. And the information on this new dependency is not very > explicit (eg in the release notes as far as I can tell). VA is for video acceleration only (encoding and decoding), so whatever your issue with terminal window rendering is, it's unrelated to VA. As for VA itself, there's libva-intel-hybrid-driver which is available in Fedora. It doesn't support all Intel CPUs, though. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/XQTCD3F7IR62TUJ4M2KJRFZV4SW3GM7L/
