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spamzilla
June 1st, 2008, 05:36 AM
I read on a devs blog that this driver may be ready for Ibex, but I haven't heard anything for about 5-6 months now.

Does anyone know what the latest news is on this chipset? Will I (we) finally be able to use the proper intel driver rather than a generic driver?

Any other info would be great

Cheers
NineKnuckles
June 1st, 2008, 05:44 AM
The only thing I've heard about this chipset is that it isn't blacklisted for compiz anymore.
Sockerdrickan
June 1st, 2008, 10:26 AM
I don't know what 8.04 uses but when I play Half-Life my computer freezes after ~5 min
smartboyathome
June 1st, 2008, 12:06 PM
When I play any 3D game, my comp freezes after a while as well. :(
spamzilla
June 1st, 2008, 12:13 PM
Most games which require use of my graphics chipset won't play either. I know it's never going to be a decent graphics chipset, but it should at least work as intended.

Lets hope the video-intel-2.3~ drivers will be a lot better than the current versions we are using.
Josh04
June 1st, 2008, 12:31 PM
When I play any 3D game, my comp freezes after a while as well. :(

Have you tried turning off compiz?
smartboyathome
June 1st, 2008, 12:39 PM
That works, but then when I try to turn compiz back on after, it sometimes freezes my comp and I have to hard restart it. :(
Josh04
June 1st, 2008, 01:46 PM
That works, but then when I try to turn compiz back on after, it sometimes freezes my comp and I have to hard restart it. :(

Yeah, I don't have a fix for that one yet :P
andrewabc
June 2nd, 2008, 08:45 AM
I also hope they fix compiz better for x3000 965g
Currently with compiz enabled, xorg uses 70% CPU when scrolling in firefox and other programs.
At one point during the testing of hardy it worked perfect, but then I got an update for something and it went back to using all the CPU.

I really want compiz to be able to use AWN.
spamzilla
June 2nd, 2008, 10:58 AM
I also hope they fix compiz better for x3000 965g
Currently with compiz enabled, xorg uses 70% CPU when scrolling in firefox and other programs.
At one point during the testing of hardy it worked perfect, but then I got an update for something and it went back to using all the CPU.

I really want compiz to be able to use AWN.

I got compiz + AWN working with the x3100. Compiz is a bit glitchy though.
aamukahvi
June 2nd, 2008, 12:32 PM
I really want compiz to be able to use AWN.
You don't really need Compiz for that. Any compositing manager will do, for example the one in metacity. You can turn it on in gconf, /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager .
andrewabc
June 2nd, 2008, 10:51 PM
I got compiz + AWN working with the x3100. Compiz is a bit glitchy though.
Yes compiz works normal for me in the sense that everything works. I can't use it though as it uses too much CPU. Mostly with scrolling in firefox (or opera)

You don't really need Compiz for that. Any compositing manager will do, for example the one in metacity. You can turn it on in gconf, /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager .
I tried that before (it was a window manager other than compiz) and I think it still caused xorg to use high CPU. Also caused AWN to crash a bit more.

I even switched from xorg to the other older version (I forget what it was called), but it still used up lots of CPU.

I documented my problem at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/177492