Driver Dell 5300

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I'm running into a very weird bug on my laptop. While the general resolution is correct (although I think it used a higher DPI value with Xorg 1.5), dmenu completely misjudges the actual screen size, as seen here:

[SOLVED] Turned out that X.org now detects and activates all additional video outputs and dmenu bases the position on the smallest one (or something like that). xrandr --output TV1 --off did the trick.

My laptop sports an Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3. This card has had quite some issues with regard to the transition period of the xorg and intel stacks, ranging from unusable desktop experience to hard lockups. I consider my card a rather extreme case, many older and nearly all newer cards worked much better. This was the major reason why I had set up a custom repo for the older set of xorg-server, mesa and intel driver.

I am happy to report that this setup is the first in many months which works very well. So far, X does not seem to have any major memory leak; its memory usage stays under 70MB. The cpu usage can go up quite high when moving and resizing windows, but it seems to not impede the user experience.

I use Kwin's desktop effects and they perform beautifully. FYI, I set "keep windows thumbnails" to "always", chose "texture from pixmap" as the "OpenGL mode" and use "nearest" as the "texture filter". I had to disable vsync for desktop effects to work.

Edit: for the glxgears-curious: I get close to 800 fps. This means little as many have pointed out and I feel its handles the Kwin compositing experience better than the complete set of old xorg-server 1.4 + mesa 7.2 + intel 2.3.2, even though the latter reaches ca. 1000 fps.

Note that this legacy driver was one of the first one to have EXA enabled by default. Switching to XAA could improve performance even more, but I'm not sure how buggy xorg-server-1.6 will be with XAA.

I just got my laptop swapped in for a newer Vostro 2510 with an nvidia 8400M GS, and everything seems to be working fine. Sound and wireless needed a bit of work, but everything seems to be running fine.

However, I am running into screen tearing at times with mplayer and VDPAU (and if I disable Composite and try to fullscreen videos, the screen flickers like mad), but other than that it's fine (when I keep composite enabled).

I've been running an intel GM45 for a week now and its been mostly stable. I needed 2.6.29 and "i915.modeset=1" to get things stable, otherwise my X11 terminals were corrupted and X would generally crash when i tried to exist. Apart from those changes I have been running a pretty generic setup and I haven't needed to do much else.

So I guess for me the modesetting seems to be a requirement to make things work. I have tried everything with both UXA and EXA without much difference, but I've settled on UXA. All of this has been testing on my 13" lenovo x301 with a 24" dell via VGA.

My only issue is waking from sleep after using the external monitor does not work. I guess that due to early days for KMS. There have been quite a few bug fixes in the driver since the version in testing so I assume it's nothing major.

Thanks to everyone who has been working on this (including all the random forum comments), after a months or so I think arch is the perfect distro. Special thanks to Allan, even though I had to recover X from the console reading your html posts in vi, your mkinitcpio-kms solved my issues.

I just did a full sys update including xorg 1.6.0.3 today and got the same error. So I followed the directions in the first post and updated xorg first. So far its working, but I am rebooting now, so we will see if I make it back.....LOL

There shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi -- mg (1)

[You learn that sarcasm does not often work well in international forums. That is why we avoid it. -- ewaller (arch linux forum moderator)

Hum, I wasn't so lucky.

I have just updated and can't start X with the nvidia driver anymore (see below). lspci says my card is a "nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440SE AGP 8x]".

Maybe I did something wrong in the xorg.conf; suggestions are very much welcome.

What is "DRM", and how can I find the latest version? I have set the driver to use "EXA" in my xorg.conf, but this is apparently not supported by the catalyst driver (I get a message stating this in the x log).

Ignore the framerate glxgears reports. It's really meant as a check to make sure the rendering pipeline even works, rather than to test it in any meaningful way. The problem is that the rendering time for the scene is essentially zero, so all it tests is the ability to push the buffer to the card. With UXA, that might be a little longer, but it won't matter in real life where each frame has a non-trivial rendering time which will proceed while the buffer is being blitted. It's sort of like pipelining in a CPU: glxgears is like one long stream of unreorderable instructions, while typical code is rife with opportunities for parallelism.

Small Models - No support for a second drive ether 2.5 or 3.5. The case clearly has room for a mount on the bottom of the unit. Makes installing a SSD with extra storage virtually impossible, mainly because the board lacks a esata port.M73/M93

X1 Gen 3 carbon pricing - Entry model that uses the intel 5200 only supports 4GB ram. For a component with the same cost 5300 model support 8GB ram, but costs $100 more. Seems like marketing is driving the path of these units. This greatly disappoints me.

I recommend Lenovo train their techs on how modern on board video services work. I had to educate them on phone and in person that the video card is no longer on the main board, and is on the CPU. That the drivers locking up is 90% of the time cause by a damaged CPU on Intel I5/I7 chips.

Stay away from the Lenovo Yoga Thinkpad (I7), Wi-Fi issues on all 11 of them we have. Every time someone brings them back into the office they have Limited or No connections. Been like this since day one on all of them. Very annoying when the sales staff come into the office and none of them can connect!

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