Re: 7.0_BETA on Ivy Bridge

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 05:06:01PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> n 18 January 2015 at 14:46, Leonardo Taccari <iamleot%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Manuel, Jaap and tech-x11@,
> >
> > Manuel Bouyer writes:
> > > It looks like what I'm seeing with opencpn running on a 965GM
> > > (inside the opencpn window, not on the backgound, but this may be
> > > dependant on the window manager - I'm using fvwm2)
> > In the last days I am able to succesfully use DRM2 on my laptop (an
> > ASUS PU301L with Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400) with acceleration
> > (NetBSD-current, amd64). It seems pretty stable and with AccelMethod
> > "SNA" I do *not* have screen corruptions.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion!
> 
> On a Thinkpad T420s, which has needed NoAccel, switching to
> AccelMethod SNA also  seems to give me fast & stable X11 without any
> display artifacts.
[...]

In my case, on the 965GM switching to SNA didn't make things better:
with opencpn I end up with a black screen, and the only choise
is to blidly type 'shutdown -p now' (I suspect the X server has
crashed, or something like that).
With stellarium I still see font corruption problems.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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