Comment 132 for bug 177492

Bryce,

Can I make a request re: 05_intel_exa_force_greedy.patch? Currently this patch forces the "greedy" heuristic which is currently the best option for many Intel cards (mine included). However, it effectively disables EXA acceleration for most cases, as far as I understand.

Wouldn't it be better to revise the patch so that the Intel driver's MigratonHeuristic *defaults* to "greedy" rather than forcesit? That way, if I want to test the "smart" or "always" heuristics to see if improvements are made in future versions of Xorg, I can specify them in my xorg.conf. That won't break user's setups and will make this patch more future-proof.