Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg
I just removed after upgrade to Gutsy /etc/X11/xorg.conf and did
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
to get a new default configuration.
It came up with i810 driver for me. This should *never* happen by
default in any circumstances! It is absolutely intolerable if Gutsy will
work out of the box like this. The default Gutsy installation must
prefer intel over i810 in case both seem to support the hardware.
Reasons:
1. i810 is absolutely hopeless with widescreen modes. The only hope for
getting those working is 915resolution, which has got its own bugs and
is not installed by default. This means that the live CD environment and
default desktop looks blurry and horrible no matter what. (I would like
to point out that Intel has got globally ~60% market share of display
adapters. Where I live 95% of sold displays are TFTs and of which some
50% are widescreen. We are not talking of a marginal group of people
affected by this issue.) The intel driver however works wonderfully out
of the box with widescreen modes.
2. i810 is notoriously bad with XV, causing the dreaded BadAllocs which crash
the multimedia applications. You have to know to add stuff like
Option "VideoRam" "65536"
Option "CacheLines" "1980"
Option "LinearAlloc" "16000"
to xorg.conf or you are affected. Which then again can break compiz-fusion (the
last line in fact does, but without that you have ca. 1/100 chance of video
actually trashing XV until you restart when using gma950). These are old bugs
that no one will ever fix because the attention moved to the new driver couple
years ago already. The intel driver has got significantly better working xv
which seems to be just working, and does not cause side effects.
3. Xrandr, enabling vga outputs and couple more advanced tricks are far
more likely to work with intel driver than i810. Especially laptop users
and people that own pivot panels are affected by this...
Please, do whatever to fix it. It reduces so much pain from ordinary
users that you have no idea. Making sure intel gets used when
appropriate should be considered imho as release CRITICAL issue.
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Gutsy: Intel should be preferred over 810
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135141
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