Announcing free software drivers for the new Intel? 965GM Express Chipset

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sat May 12 18:18:41 PDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 02:31 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:

> I can say, that I can play HD movie in Mpeg2. However, the most disturbing
> is screen tearing due to no wait for retrace when displaying the frame.
> Are you planning something in this field?

I hope this gets fixed eventually, but it's a rather systemic problem as
the X server currently has no way of waiting for the hardware; spinning
is not the most efficient use of the CPU.

This is, however, something which shouldn't take any new hardware
knowledge to fix, so if you are sufficiently motivated...

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keith.packard at intel.com
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