but it didn't fix the bug :( Maybe I missed something? I downloaded andconfigured the package from git:
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel configured it to /usr, make, make install, then rebooted. I can confirm it is being loaded [ 4.567] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so [ 4.568] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 4.568] compiled for 1.10.1, module version = 2.15.0 [ 4.568] Module class: X.Org Video Driver (the previous version was 2.14) --dmg On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Denis Auroux <aur...@math.mit.edu> wrote: > Hi Jonas, > >> sorry for all the noise, I promise this is the last message I'm sending >> for today. > > Well, it's very useful noise. You've pretty much figured it out... > >> The bug doesn't happen either with the current upstream version of >> xf86-video-intel. i just upgraded to the git version and i don't >> experience it anymore. >> >> i suspect thus, it is actually in xf86-video-intel and got fixed between >> version 2.15.0-1 and current upstream. > > If this is confirmed by others, we're probably in good shape! > I suspect it might have to do with > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=3145530feed879082bcfab11ffc8e7fd0911c920 > > (This is a commit from 3 days ago, fixing an issue with flushing refresh > requests. Not intel965-specific, but it is a display refresh issue. There's > also a couple of April 17 commits that might or might not be about > processing of batch requests, one of them i965-specific). > > But I am really not sure. > > Anyway: it seems impractical to try and work around such a specific issue in > xournal in an unobtrusive way -- xournal is very far removed from the intel > driver in the processing chain. If the upgrade to the git version of the > intel driver fixes the issue for everyone, I'd advocate contacting the > xf86-video-intel maintainer in the relevant distributions to report the > problem and request an update of the distribution's intel driver package to > include the latest upstream commits. > > Thanks again for all your detective work! > Denis > > -- --dmg --- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Xournal-devel mailing list Xournal-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xournal-devel
