<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt">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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>If anyone is interested, I can provide the RPM and SRPMS.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Rudy.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Akemi Yagi <amyagi@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> EL Repo Developer Mailing List <elrepo-devel@lists.elrepo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 17, 2013 3:41 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [elrepo-devel] Intel graphics driver 2.21.0 for CentOS 6<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Rudy Eschauzier <<a ymailto="mailto:reschauzier@yahoo.com" href="mailto:reschauzier@yahoo.com">reschauzier@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> The following updated packages are in the elrepo-testing<br>>>
repository:<br>>><br>>> intel-gpu-tools-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo<br>>> xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo<br>>> xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel-2.21.2-1.el6.elrepo<br>>><br>>> Please test if you can. Any feedback appreciated.<br>>><br>>> Akemi<br>><br>> 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:<br>><br>> [<a ymailto="mailto:root@sun" href="mailto:root@sun">root@sun</a> ~]# more /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf<br>> Section "Device"<br>> Identifier "Intel Graphics"<br>> Driver "intel"<br>> Option "AccelMethod" "sna"<br>> Option "TearFree" "true"<br>> EndSection<br>><br>> 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.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Rudy.<br><br>My bad. Thanks for noticing the error in the version. Thanks for<br>testing. Will promote the packages after correction.<br><br>Akemi<br>_______________________________________________<br>elrepo-devel mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:elrepo-devel@lists.elrepo.org" href="mailto:elrepo-devel@lists.elrepo.org">elrepo-devel@lists.elrepo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo-devel</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>