[Intel-gfx] xf86-video-intel 2.5 release planning

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Aug  3, 2008 at 10:20:21 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:44:11AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > 1) ExaComposite rendering problems (mostly fonts) on i965. Switching to
> > XAA fixes the bug for everybody. Adding EXANoComposite seems to help
> > lots of people as well (some didn't try yet).
> > This is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451791 and
> > friends. It is supposed to be
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15278 and 15012 in
> > bugzilla. Your intel friends didn't reproduce these exact symptoms iirc,
> > but I am not sure that they tried with Xserver 1.4. We have Xserver
> > 1.4.99 in Debian experimental now, so we might have some users try to
> > reproduce with it soon.
> 
> I had also problems with fonts on i965 with 1.4.1 Xserver and intel driver.
> It seems that it is related to frame buffer compression. Is it enabled? (The
> driver enables it by default)
> 
Disabling fbc doesn't seem to help:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451791#72

Cheers,
Julien