On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:45:04PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 20:31:28 +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote: > > > Hi altogether, > > > > I'm on a Macbook from 2007 an testing the intel driver in experimental > > requested on debian-devel. > > Since I upgraded I have rendering errors, especially of text in > > gnome-terminal > > (sometimes letter are missing, sometimes whole lines look as if someone > > wiped > > over them with a dirty sponge on a black board). Sometimes this not only > > affects the text or inner area of windows, but also Window decorations and > > menus with the distortion reaching into the inner areas of the winows. This > > artifact mainly happens in the upper left areas of the windows, rarely in > > other > > areas. > > > Please report this upstream, following the instructions at > http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html
> I reported bug 589077 upstream and got the following reply from Chris Wilson: > That's a result of an underrun, and since it only happens when both displays > are connected it sounds like we are incorrectly using a low power mode, such > as > self-refresh or framebuffer compression, with multiple active pipes. > > This is fixed in 2.6.35. [9c928d168] So I upgraded to linux-image and linux-base 2.6.35 currently in experimental and both bugs I reported against xserver-xorg-video-intel disappeared. So hands-up for the experimental drivers, but it seems using them with kernel 2.6.32 is error-prone. Thanks for your hard work, Wolfi > > > Then let us know the bug number so we can track it. > > Thanks for your report, > Julien
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