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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #359392 (x-freeze-apr3)
  2. Comment #188

Comment 188 for bug 359392

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 359392] Re: [i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:24:53AM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Joachim Nilsson [2009-04-21 2:18 -0000]:
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Virtual 3200 1200
> > EndSubSection
>
> That's the second person who reports no freezes with a larger
> VirtualSize. Jesse, do you know why this could happen? Maybe if the
> VirtualSize is big enough you can fit all of the viewports into the
> backbuffer without the need of copying them in and out on viewport
> switches?

That's three: albert23, Sebastien Bacher and Joachim Nilsson.

I wonder if it avoids the problem completely or just makes it harder to
trigger.

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 - mdz