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Old 6th November 2008
richardpl richardpl is offline
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There is very little difference from user point of view when enabling DRI with intel Xorg driver or i810 Xorg driver.

In both cases, with i810 or intel xf86-video driver same kernel module: i915.ko is used (plus drm.ko).

Also user do not need to replace i810 with intel in xorg.conf file, user just need to deinstall xf86-video-i810 and install xf86-video-intel.

Anyway, DRI works with both Xorg drivers(on graphics cards that such drivers suppport).

AFAIK intel is maintained but have much more bugs than obsolete i810 driver (now also marked as broken port) for old cards.

In other words switching Xorg drivers will not improve OP situation in any way (as side efect it may make it even worse).
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