[elrepo-devel] Intel graphics driver 2.21.0 for CentOS 6

[Rudy Eschauzier]

CentOS recently released version 2.21.12-2 of the intel graphics driver. Although from the version number this seems to be an improvement over the 2.21.2-1 that was released to elrepo-testing a little while ago, in practice it is not.

The newly released CentOS 6.5 version suffers a bad memory leak when playing full screen Flash video, causing Xorg to come to a crawl and crash eventually.

I have ported version 2.21.15-5 of the driver from Fedora 20 to CentOS 6.5. In this version the memory leak is gone, and performance excellent. It also fully supports the TearFree option as described below.

If anyone is interested, I can provide the RPM and SRPMS.

Thanks,
Rudy.




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 From: Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>
To: EL Repo Developer Mailing List <elrepo-devel at lists.elrepo.org> 
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [elrepo-devel] Intel graphics driver 2.21.0 for CentOS 6
 

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Rudy Eschauzier <reschauzier at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The following updated packages are in the elrepo-testing
>> repository:
>>
>> intel-gpu-tools-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo
>> xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo
>> xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo
>>
>> Please test if you can. Any feedback appreciated.
>>
>> Akemi
>
> The driver works well with 6.4. The 2.21 version has stable support for the TearFree option which avoids video tearing. Enable by setting TearFree to true in the config file:
>
> [root at sun ~]# more /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
> Section "Device"
>    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
>    Driver      "intel"
>    Option      "AccelMethod" "sna"
>    Option      "TearFree" "true"
> EndSection
>
> As a minor comment, the changelog of the spec file mentions version 2.20.19-1.el6.elrepo to be the latest. This should of course be 2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo.
>
> Thanks,
> Rudy.

My bad. Thanks for noticing the error in the version. Thanks for
testing. Will promote the packages after correction.

Akemi
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