*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252094 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252094
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc5/linux-
image-2.6.30-020630rc5-generic_2.6.30-020630rc5_i386.deb
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc5/linux-
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252094 ***
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For the first look with UXA everything works fine, but I can't
initialize desktop effects (like compiz)
k...@karm:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252094 ***
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@salemboot
What do you want them to do? Enable UXA? This was tested and resulted in many
freezes, crashes and other bugs with current -intel driver. Do you really think
the Ubuntu team could fix all this
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@unggnu : « Who uses Linux for gaming or an Intel graphic card for 3d
cad anyway? ... No one really needs composite to work. »
Sure. I'm always puzzled by people who say that something can be broken
because
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252094 ***
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[i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics
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Indeed, the PPA now says:
== WARNING: xserver-xorg-video-intel -
2:2.7.99.1+git20090502.cfb98f3d-0ubuntu0sarvatt2 and newer do not have
EXA/XAA/XvMC support! ==
If you still have the working xorg-server and xserver-xorg-video-intel
packages (and their build rules), could you make them available
@Gnurou : you can still manually download the older packages from
http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/x/
« I am really close from dropping Ubuntu on this one. »
So am I. I'm not sure if any project head at Ubuntu/Canonical is aware
of the seriousness of such issues and the
Even with EXA... Trying for fun to run Hal-Life 2 in Wine, the game
starts loading and it ends with a graphics crash while my console
displays :
« Mesa 7.4.1 implementation error: i915_program_error: Exceeded max temporary
reg
Please report at bugzilla.freedesktop.org »
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Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
@Gnurou : you can still manually download the older packages from
http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/x/
« I am really close from dropping Ubuntu on this one. »
So am I. I'm not sure if any project head at Ubuntu/Canonical is aware
of the
I am having an issue with Jaunty on i915. Using Metacity, the CPU gets
slowly but surely eaten up with no obvious process eating up the CPU
cycles. top shows no process taking more than 5-10% CPU time, while
the System Monitor panel applet shows the CPU at 100% usage, with
IOWait eating up most of
Valentin: I guess this is a different bug - this bug is about
graphical performance and glitches. Your symptoms look very different.
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Valentin Neacsu: You should first check if this I/O wait is not caused
by hard disk access :
- Make sure the system is not swapping much too much to disk (not enough memory)
- Check your hard disk health: Look for HD error messages in syslog, check disk
health with smartmontools...
Gnurou's
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252094 ***
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MASTER: Poor graphics performance on Intel
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Has anybody emailed Mark Shuttlewortth about this catastrophe?
He claims that he is a benevolent dictator. Maybe he will use his power to fix
the problem.
To be sure he himself has some insight into the
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252094 ***
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salemboot wrote:
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252094 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252094
Has anybody emailed Mark Shuttlewortth about this catastrophe?
I emailed him about the RAID
Using the experimental PPA packages with UXA acceleration brought me
some observations after some hours of use, besides the occasional screen
flashes I had already reported (I use a blank scren screensaver that
fires up after 5 minutes):
1/ Once the screensaver blanks the screen, it will
I was able to fix problem 3 described above by not having the screen
locked on resume from sleep.
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I've just tried using EXA accel instead of UXA with the latest PPA
drivers :
- glxgears reports 550-590 FPS with EXA where it would report about 230
FPS with UXA.
- ppracer is smooth and fun with 25-30 FPS with EXA where it would be 3
to 5 FPS with UXA.
- I haven't yet had time to investigate
Looks like my latest reported configuration works good :
- PPA drivers
- EXA config as described above
Getting good performance, haven't seen any graphics artifacts or
corruption, apparently survives system suspend/resume with no problem
(but only tested 3-4 times).
The exact same config (but
Having it working properly for a few hours was probably still too much
:-(
A couple hours ago got released to the mirrors xserver-xorg-video-
intel_2%3a2.7.99.1+git20090502.cfb98f3d-0ubuntu0sarvatt2_i386.deb and
this one definitely breaks EXA : xorg does UXA even though EXA is
specifically
Bartek wrote : « in order to follow the howto to enable mtrr one has to
install an unsupported, pre-release kernel, that's not an option in any
way, or am I missing something? »
I tried this experimental kernel with all the hints from
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582, however the
As Tom pointed out, fixing the MTRR range does not require installation
of the experimental kernel.
Also, the MTRR fix is (AFAIK) to improve EXA performance (by allowing
DRI1 to correctly do write-combining), and you were clearly running UXA
as per the log you posted. Also you need to remember
Thanks - if you can't boot RC2 that's fair enough, the rest of the info
is useful anyway!
Your random full screen flashes - are you now getting
(EE) intel(0): underrun on pipe A! messages in the log? If so could be worth
a look at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19304 - separate
@Bartek: « the MTRR fix is (AFAIK) to improve EXA performance ... and
you were clearly running UXA as per the log you posted. »
I don't have a clue about what EXA or UXA are, I'm no graphics drivers
expert ;-) I only know that UXA seemed disabled (per Xorg.log) before I
applied the suggestions
@Swâmi: my apologies, EXA and UXA are different AccelMethods, with UXA being
the newer one
if you want to do some performance testing you could install
planetpenguin-racer, it gives a much better estimate of what has happened. The
reason is not to play games, but simply get these problems
An attempt at writing an automated script to fix mtrr ranges.
** Attachment added: automated extraction and application of write-combining
ranges
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26176530/fixmtrr.sh
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@Bartek : OK, set at 1024x600 (which is my EeePC resolution) full screen
and configured to display FPS, playing PlanetPinguin Racer shows me a
FPS rate mostly comprised between 3 and 5 _...@_/ :-(
I've seen it max to 5.7 for very short periods. Besides this slowness
the graphics looks allright
fixmtrr.sh should be called just before starting x, even a logout
operation resets the MTRR ranges (when using GDM)
I've found that the MTRR fix does not affect performance in the least
when run on a system using a display manager for starting X. It seems
that the X server is only unable to set
Thanks for this document Bartek, I'll take a close look at it.
Now for the fun :
- Upgrading Hardy = Intrepid severly impacted the graphics performance
of NVidia cards
- Upgrading Intrepid = Jaunty :
-- Breaks Intel cards driver
-- Completely removes the fglrx driver for ATI cards.
So... No
My statement about display managers was somewhat wrong: The MTRR fix has
an effect on both the G35 and i915 using the 2.4 driver. Using the 2.6
driver, it only has an effect on the older i915 chipset. It does not
matter whether the X server is started by GDM or via startx.
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Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in
Confirming this bug on Asus EeePC 1002HA, Intel Corporation Mobile
945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller.
Upgrading from Kubuntu Intrepid + KDE 4.2 (PPA) to Jaunty severely broke
KDE graphics.
First things I noticed were serious issues with graphics elements
redrawing, i.e. KMail toolbar
Keith Packard offers up a complete explanation of what's going on both
in Xorg in general and the current intel driver in particular on his
blog: http://keithp.com/blogs/Sharpening_the_Intel_Driver_Focus
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If I wear my dummy user hat this is unacceptable, and I'm considering
ranting loud about general Ubuntu regressions at each and every new
version.
I just want to let you know that I feel much the same way. Well put!
I've been a Linux user and supporter since 10+ years and sometimes a
No matter how good the reason and explanations can be...
It's very good that the developpers of a given driver or package improve
it, and it may result in occasional regressions and trouble.
But we're not talking about a driver's development but about a _major
distribution_ and it's the
@Bryce, there are lots of bugs described in the conversation above so
far, as follows... so it's a duplicate of several. :)
Musthafa says later on that KDE and Gnome are both affected, so I am
inclined to agree that it's not Kubuntu specific, and the UXA
hangs/freezes described are part of the
Zack, many thanks for the heads-up. I have already reinstalled
Intrepid and I am not currently thinking of upgrading to Jaunty until
it becomes stable for my everyday use.
If there is any way to test it without installing, I would be very
glad to do it.
Also, I can provide any info needed from my
What swami said - 'it is completely unacceptable that when performing a
version upgrade' - this issue with intel graphcis being basically broken
has been known since 9.04 beta, if not well before, and yet Ubuntu went
ahead and released it anyway - is this really what not being a LTS
release is
Having read http://keithp.com/blogs/Sharpening_the_Intel_Driver_Focus I am even
more confused now - it's clear that Ubuntu should not have upgrading *anything*
to do with intel graphics untill the guys over there had a chance to finish
things up, probably mainly A minor but important piece of
I'm running 9.04 on an Asus with the 945G chip. I had to revert to
Intrepids driver to make thing acceptable. I'm with all the others on
this one who think that this is ridiculous that such a major bug could
be released. there is no way this bug should have been allowed to hit
production. There
That really makes me worry about the directions Ubuntu takes : since
Gutsy I have a several pages list of serious regressions and upgrade
issues that surely affect a large proportion of the users base...
I agree with this, it's becoming a real problem.
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@Zack: in order to follow the howto to enable mtrr one has to install an
unsupported, pre-release kernel, that's not an option in any way, or am
I missing something?
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@Bartek: Missing :-) You can apply the MTRR fix with or without the unsupported
the Kernel. The new Kernel has updated internal gubbins that help on top of the
MTRR change.
This is the down side, esp. for distros like Ubuntu who are very allergic to
changing kernels more frequently that every 6
I am disappointed by the tone of posters on this bug report; such
conduct does not represent the Kubuntu community very well.
I had been keeping this bug report separate from other performance
reports, in anticipation that something Kubuntu-specific could be done,
but I think instead I'll lump
Upgraded today from intrepid (graphics/compositing working fine under kwin) to
jaunty.
Experienced the same kind of problem : sluggish. Kde even turned off the
compositing itself after a few minutes.
Tried the old driver using this method :
This howto fixed my problem :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582
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I would like to retract my statement that UXA does not work on the G35.
After switching to the latest kernel, X starts up fine and I haven't had
any crashes yet. Graphics performance is still below par though.
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UXA is still far slower than EXA for me too. Are we using this bug to
track the regression, or is there another bug for that with an
importance and a milestone assigned? BOTH are unstable unless I switch
on Greedy.
@Bartek: What version of the kernel are you now running - latest could
mean a lot
My apologies, latest meant 2.6.28-11.42 while the no modes found error
with UXA occured with a 2.6.27 series kernel (kms missing i believe?).
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