Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Tuesday, 2009-07-21 at 20:19 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
> > Have just upgraded a PC with Intel 845 onboard graphics, from 11.0 to 11.1.
> > Initially tried installing KDE4 and it was REALLY slow, so then changed
> > to Gnome, which didn't seem much better. Have now gone back to KDE3
> > (whatever is default for 11.1 - and uninstalled KDE4 and Gnome) and
> > initially it SEEMED better, but after a bit of use, have realised it is
> > very noticeably slower than when 11.0 was installed. Apart from the
> > playing with GUI, the rest of the system is very basic, with very little
> > apart from the basic installed.
> > I have read quite a few emails re problems with the Intel 845 graphics
> > and the latest X system, and did notice when I had KDE4 installed, that
> > I was missing (read: they were black) some icons in the system tray...
> > but apart from that, nothing else noticeable.
> > Has anyone got any ideas on fixing this up??

Have you 'officially' reported it as a bug?

I see at least one bug for 11.2 and the i845
<https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506699>

Try - disabling ACPI in your BIOS
      disabling ACPI at boot, for your kernel ["acpi_osi=!
Linux" or "acpi=off"
      reconfiguring X from scratch [sax2 -r, backup your old X config
first, of course]
      check your accelmethod, is it EXA or UXA?  Do other people report
that as being appropriate for an 845.  Of the top of my head I think
i845 should use UXA
      

> Stay on 11.0
> Try another distro.

Yea, that will help [not].  Most likely the problem will track the
hardware across distributions - I've seen this many times.  They are all
packaging X, etc... 99.44% of the exact same software.  Distro hopping
is a complete waste of time.

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