Comment 173 for bug 541492

Stimulated by the previous posts I tested one of our Dell Optiplex GX60 desktops with
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) again. I found a combination which is almost perfect for this kind of machine without fancy hardware.
linux-image-2.6.35rc4-131+ge467e10+nopatch-generic (!! nopatch from Brian Rogers' repository)
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.12.0+git20100716~glasen~ppa1
libdrm-intel1 2.4.21~glasen~ppa5
libdrm2 2.4.21~glasen~ppa5
plus the gpufix2 mesa packages from Brian Rogers,
otherwise up to date lucid.
So it is similar to what has been recommended here lately, except of the kernel.
What I did for testing, frequently switching VTs, logging in as a second user (slow but safe), atlantis xscreensaver, voluntarily reboot, normal openoffice work, watching 2h xvid video with totem player, visiting heavily flash overloaden web sites with firefox and chromium. The machine is up now for more than a day and the only flaw I could detect was in dmesg during system startup,
[ 34.782896] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
[ 34.782909] [drm:i915_report_and_clear_eir] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
[ 34.782941] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
which apparently is harmless.
I am writing this from a second of these i845 computer on which I just have installed above fixes. It really feels more responsive than with the 2.6.34-v9patch kernel.
Would the "nopatch" in the name of the kernel which I use mean, that I do not need the V8/V9 patch on my i845 hardware any longer with recent xserver-xorg-video-intel and libdrm ?
Regards
Michael