I tried upgrading to the new driver. One happy moment was that I now get textured video (so they I move totem the video surface now moves with it), that's just awesome. One not so good thing though is that this new driver consumes HUGE amounts of CPU. When I play a 320x240 pixel .OGG file (which was downloaded from youtube), my computer grinds away at 100% CPU just playing that single video (check out the attached screenshot). This is a dual core 2GHz, 2GB machine and with the previous driver playing that same .OGG file was barely noticable on the CPU meter.
I will see how long I can last using this new driver. I'll keep it for a few days though for sure, to see if this freeze bug happens again. Thanks for responding so quickly unggnu! I also have another, non-related idea; instead of asking users to complete these long lists of tasks, as seen here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting#head-8c2902c284112c960b29386ea3d2f97fd3c57109 and here: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html Maybe someone could create a script that gathers and submits all the necessary information? I know that the ALSA project did this for sound cards and it has been VERY successful for them in getting more issues resolved with less effort. Check out their script here: http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-file/2ea9a8a108ea/alsa-info.sh If this bug repros with the new driver I will post about it here right away. Again, thanks for the help so far! ** Attachment added: "the new driver seems to hog a lot of CPU" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14701651/that_hurts.png -- periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234768 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
