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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #252094
  2. Comment #324

Comment 324 for bug 252094

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Sudip Natekar (sudip-n) wrote :

I have been following this thread for a while hoping for a solution to the poor performance of Intel GMA965 X3100 on Intrepid 8.10 64bit. Compiz was always stuttering, scrolling was laggy, and slight tearing with videos.
So I was reading this other bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/177492), and right at the beginning, someone suggested adding the following line to the Device section of xorg.conf.

Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

Well, that's what I did, and now compiz is very smooth and videos are not tearing anymore.
I did have a problem initially with VLC crashing when I clicked on any video file, but that was resolved after I changed the default video output to "X11 video output" in VLC's preferences.

Hope this helps someone.