I just tried the current daily built in a VirtualBox on a fast T4200 (software rendering) as well as natively (RS880 Gallium rendering) on an Neo K350 Lenovo Edge 11 [Mobility Radeon HD 4250].
Speed improvement is indeed drastic, so 'unusable' is no longer appropriate. Though 'making fun to use', neither. Opening dashboard takes ~2-3s under VirtualBox, 1-2s as native 3D on the Edge. Under Unity2D opending the dash occurs instantly including blur effect on both environments. At least one interims shade grade is still visible on trsuty. Also other desktop operations like window maximizing are visibly laggy (~0.6s). I recently tried the Ubuntu Gnome Alpha Build on the Edge, which I remember quite snappy w/o significant lags while toying around. Based on my user experience I would say it's "ok" now, but still a bit annoying for daily use on low powered devices and VMs. Maybe turning off some visual goodies in those environment could help to close that final gap. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055936 Title: Unity is unusuably slow with fallback software rendering (LLVMpipe) Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I have Quantal Beta 1 installed in a Virtual Box VM, since unity-2d is no longer available it should be doing 3D rendering in software as a fallback since Virtual Box doesn't expose 3D hardware acceleration properly. Any form of 3D animation takes, roughly, five to ten times as long as it should. Opening the dash by clicking the Dash Home button takes about twenty seconds and you can watch the little spinner in the corner step through its animation in discreet chunks. Opening a new window of any application it's also possible to watch the window opening animation in stages. Operations within an application, scrolling, etc. aren't noticeably slower than on Precise, so I'm inclined to call this a unity bug but it's entirely possible it's not. I'm keeping the Quantal VM around for testing, so if you need further information or debugging output, let me know and I'll be happy to provide it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: unity 6.6.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.1: ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz Date: Tue Sep 25 00:19:23 2012 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: quantal DistroVariant: ubuntu GraphicsCard: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter [80ee:beef] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120924) Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-15-generic root=UUID=6c5353f4-6f9f-43c5-8a44-cbbdb1483ffb ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2: dmi.product.name: VirtualBox dmi.product.version: 1.2 dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.2+bzr3377-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0~git20120917.7cfd42ce-0ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0~git20120917.7cfd42ce-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.8-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1055936/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
