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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org