>> I have some very unlucky i830 chip which doesn't work well even with >> reasonably modern drivers. The problem is that when i try to use more >> than "VideoRam 8060" memory (and that's needed to use xvideo/hw >> cursor/dri) all the three parts fail: >> - i see some random garbage instead of hw cursor >> - i get blue rectangle instead of xvideo output >> - dri is not working (on 4.3.0-2 it uses software rendering, on >> 4.3.0-0pre1v4 it used to crash xfree) >> - even 'x11perf -all' displays some garbage on 4.3.0-2 (on >> 4.3.0-0pre1v4 it used to crash xfree) >> All the releases before 4.3.0-2 used to crash very often, since i >> installed 4.3.0-2 it crashes seldom (once in 10-20 minutes) but now i >> see much more garbage. > > first, there's a known bug in 4.3.0-2, that prevents DRI from working on i386 > based hardware. > So try to upgrade to 4.3.0-3. Tried to. Same results - nothing of the above works, including dri. 'glxinfo' gives the same "direct rendering: No" :(
> If this still doesn't work as desired for you, you could upgrade to > xserver-xfee86 found at http://rphlx1.uni-r.de . > This contains some fixes to the i830 part of the i810 driver grabbed from > upstream - mainly to fix a segfault on i865g based hardware. > It _maybe_ could fix your problems as well... Just the same - no changes :^((( -- Alexander Barinov
