Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-21 Thread Tiago Vignatti
Johannes Truschnigg escreveu: I really love how Intel and its fine development team supports a free software stack even on the desktop side of things, and how these efforts benefit even users of hardware from different manufacturers. Yet on the other hand, I'd really appreciate more

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 08:54:28PM -0200, Tiago Vignatti wrote: (and yes, we definitely need to separate it in a planet.x.org subset) Didn't cworth already do that? :) Cheers, Daniel signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ xorg mailing list

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Jaeger thjae...@gmail.com wrote: You really need the glyph cache in the X server to get decent text performance out of the 2.5 intel driver. The patches are pretty straightforward to backport, but it is my understanding that a 1.6 server will be

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:37 -0800, Jeffrey Baker wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@tungstengraphics.com wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:57 +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:48:52PM -0500, Thomas Jaeger wrote: You really need the glyph

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-15 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:48:52PM -0500, Thomas Jaeger wrote: You really need the glyph cache in the X server to get decent text performance out of the 2.5 intel driver. The patches are pretty straightforward to backport, but it is my understanding that a 1.6 server will be uploaded to

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:57 +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:48:52PM -0500, Thomas Jaeger wrote: You really need the glyph cache in the X server to get decent text performance out of the 2.5 intel driver. The patches are pretty straightforward to backport, but it is

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-15 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@tungstengraphics.com wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:57 +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:48:52PM -0500, Thomas Jaeger wrote: You really need the glyph cache in the X server to get decent text performance out of the

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-15 Thread Johannes Truschnigg
On Monday 15 December 2008, Jeffrey Baker wrote: I seriously doubt it, since performance was far better last week, last month, and a year ago with the same hardware. I think we can safely pin this current problem on the software. Even if it were limited at 50kglyphs/s, the 7m character

very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-14 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
I just upgraded to more recent bits, namely xorg 1.5.3 and intel driver 2.5.1 on GM965 rev 0c, and linux 2.6.28-rc8, all from Ubuntu 9.04 development packages. I noticed that scrolling text performance in xterm, gnome-terminal, and xfce4-terminal is incredibly bad. Slideshow bad. You can see

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-14 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Eric Anholt e...@anholt.net wrote: Is your CPU pegged during the slow performance period? If so, you need to run sysprof to see what the problem is. Yes, Xorg gets one entire CPU and then some. (Yes, oprofile generally isn't good enough to get decent

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-14 Thread Thomas Jaeger
You really need the glyph cache in the X server to get decent text performance out of the 2.5 intel driver. The patches are pretty straightforward to backport, but it is my understanding that a 1.6 server will be uploaded to jaunty soon, so you might want to wait for that. Jeffrey W. Baker

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-14 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Eric Anholt e...@anholt.net wrote: Is your CPU pegged during the slow performance period? If so, you need to run sysprof to see what the problem is. 1.3MB output of sysprof at the following URL: http://octothorpe.barelyconnected.net/~jwb/sysprof-scrolling.txt

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-14 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Jaeger thjae...@gmail.com wrote: You really need the glyph cache in the X server to get decent text performance out of the 2.5 intel driver. The patches are pretty straightforward to backport, but it is my understanding that a 1.6 server will be

Re: very bad, and very weird, scrolling text performance xorg 1.5.3 intel 2.5.1 GM965

2008-12-14 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Eric Anholt e...@anholt.net wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 16:08 -0800, Jeffrey Baker wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Jaeger thjae...@gmail.com wrote: You really need the glyph cache in the X server to get decent text performance out of the 2.5