Jerry Lamos, Ubuntu Karmic reached EOL on April 30, 2011. For more on this, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases .
If this is reproducible on a supported release, it will help immensely if you filed a new report with Ubuntu by ensuring you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information running the following from a terminal: ubuntu-bug xorg Also, please feel free to subscribe me to it. For more on why this is helpful, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399559 Title: [RV200] ATI Radeon Mobility KMS modeset=1 22% slower than vesa Status in xserver-xorg-driver-ati: Invalid Status in xserver-xorg-video-ati package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: Binary package hint: xorg The bug is KMS modeset=1 measured 22% slower than vesa with video intensive GtkPerf is from Ubuntu synaptic, and 12% slower than modeset=0. At least for this benchmark ubuntu is faster with vesa than with the specific ati drivers. Does anyone know how to get launchpad to handle columnar data? There are 5 columns of data here. Measurements are from IBM Thinkpad T40 with ATI Radeon Mobility 7500. Col 1 is measurements with xorg driver vesa. Col 2 is nomodeset no KMS xorg ati driver 6.12.99+git..... Col 3 is modeset=1 KMS xorg ati driver 6.12.99+git..... jaunty.Mobility7500 karmic.mode0.Mobility7500.6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu1 karmic.mode1.Mobility7500.6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc-0ubuntu1 GtkPerf from Ubuntu Synaptic Thinkpad T40 Mobility 7500 vesa karmicmode0 karmicmode1 Mode0:vesa Mode1:vesa GtkEntrytime:_____________ 0.08 0.06 0.05 -25% -38% GtkComboBoxtime:________ 2.15 2.41 3.08 12% 43% GtkComboBoxEntrytime:____ 1.39 1.78 1.75 28% 26% GtkSpinButtontime:________ 0.35 0.37 0.96 6% 174% GtkProgressBartime:_______ 0.34 0.34 0.74 0% 118% GtkToggleButtontime:______ 0.45 0.46 0.72 2% 60% GtkCheckButtontime:_______ 0.27 0.29 0.29 7% 7% GtkRadioButtontime:_______ 0.43 0.48 0.4 12% -7% GtkTextViewAddtexttime:___ 1.62 1.94 1.36 20% -16% GtkTextViewScrolltime:_____ 0.55 0.65 0.47 18% -15% GtkDrawingAreaLinestime:__ 1.47 1.71 1.87 16% 27% GtkDrawingAreaCirclestime: 2.12 2.18 1.86 3% -12% GtkDrawingAreaTexttime:___ 1.51 1.52 1.51 1% 0% GtkDrawingAreaPixbufstime: 0.16 0.26 0.69 63% 331% Total time:________________ 12.90 14.46 15.76 12% 22% Will attach lspi, Xorg.0.log, ... tomorrow. It's late now. [lspci] 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3340] (rev 03) Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0529] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57] Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0530] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+bug/399559/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

