2009/9/6 david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com>
Ray Rashif wrote:
> Nope, I don't have shared audio/video IRQs.
>
> And after further probing, it turns out the intel driver itself is the
> culprit alongside its usage of GEM and KMS in full.
>
> The older xf86-video-intel 2.3.2 has no problem.

Then a bug in the newer driver, or the newer driver is trying to do
something with some hardware feature that stumbles because the newer
driver is being more ambitious than the old?

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David
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Most probably the case, but I'm afraid that it isn't really a bug for them. If someone could help pinpoint the interfering processes, then it might be worth a shot.

From what I know, there has been quite a lot of change for the better. Interestingly http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ3Ng highlights dri_bufmgr, which might just be the one responsible. Then again, this is better discussed with the intel video team so I suppose I should file a feature request. Thanks for the aid!