Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

Dear Maintainer: I need to advise you that the current package in Stretch xserver-xorg-video-qxl 0.1.4-3+b1 is ***NOT*** fixed on my Stretch I manually recompile xserver-xorg-video-qxl and applied the following patch:

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

I need to add some information. Here is a link to a thread to Jessie downstream distro suffering from issue: https://forums.whonix.org/t/qxl-slowness-fix/1759 Fedora has some patches applied to QXL and maybe they would help: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-qxl.git/tree/

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 22:58:26 -0400 Pat Roberts wrote: > Dear Maintainer, Hi, > When QXL video is selected in a virt-manager Debian Jessie or Wheezy guest, the > performance of a whole class of applications is so bad it renders the driver > unusable, up to

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

WORKAROUND (finally!!!): sudo editor /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-qxl.conf # insert the following: Section "Device" Identifier "qxl" Driver "qxl" Option "ENABLE_SURFACES" "False" EndSection # save + reboot with QXL video This was suggested on a mailing list for a downstream Jessie

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

I wonder if these issues and lack of configurability aren't related to the fact that xserver-xspice package (part of QXL source) appears to be missing from Jessie altogether?? https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xserver-xspice Another note: I've found this affects other Jessie-based distros as

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

Minor correction: I used the Cirrus driver on Wheezy machines. For Jessie machines I have it set to the VGA driver (because Cirrus has issues on Jessie guests as well). I had no luck trying to backport the xserver-xorg-video-qxl package from Sid locally on my own (green screen) and limited

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

Another way to replicate: Simply run the Jessie live CD (debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso) as a guest in Virt-Manager with QXL driver (default) and try to load Iceweasel and try to scroll through some websites for 10 minutes. Even with spice-vdagent missing, with only the qxl driver

Bug#801081: xserver-xorg-video-qxl: QXL video unusable due to performance

Package: xserver-xorg-video-qxl Version: 0.1.1-2+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When QXL video is selected in a virt-manager Debian Jessie or Wheezy guest, the performance of a whole class of applications is so bad it renders the driver unusable, up to appearing locked up. The most