During the weekend I upgraded my laptop to sqeeze. I usually track unstable pretty closely, but in between transition I gave myself a bit of slack in order to avoid messing up with the gnome transition. The result is ok, NetworkManager Just Work !!!, the new kernel seems pretty snappy. I finally get the power status for my network card.
My laptop is a old dell latidute x200. I always had problem with the graphic card and Xorg. With this upgrade I’ve always motivated myself to find a solution. Not surprisingly it was quite easy. I’ve added these option to my xorg.conf :
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "intel"
Option "Tiling" "false"
Option "FramebufferCompression" "false"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "ExaNoComposite" "true"
EndSection
I’m not entirely sure if I need them all. I’ve noticed that already my screen corruptions go away with “tiling” and “framebuffercompression” set to false. But the life changing options are the accell method (EXA seems much more stable) and the “ExaNoComposite”.
What I’ve left to figure out is to fix the hibernate function, that is still not very reliable as it works 8 out of 10 times.
After 1.3Gb of updates, I’m happy I’m again surfing the unstable wave.