Hello, I tried Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" and didn't experience a single crash with it (even with using an external monitor on my laptop). It seems that EXA is definitely the source of the current intel driver instability.
Metacity 2.22 just landed in the Debian unstable repos, and I noticed that when compositing effects are activated, EXA is needed by Totem (and other movie players I suppose) in order to watch videos (or even to display the visual effects when playing music files), otherwise Totem just exit with the following message: The program 'totem' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 54 error_code 11 request_code 140 minor_code 19) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) I don't know if that helps to narrow the problem, but I hope there will be a fix soon; Metacity compositing effects are just so "kicking-ass", what a shame I can't play any video while using them :-) Peace. -- Apelete Seketeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
