Yep, will be glad to run some tests with Alpha 3. Bryce Harrington wrote: > Michael Larabel - btw Alpha-3 (due next week) would be a good candidate > to do performance testing/comparisons against, for -intel. We're > anticipating including the 2.8.0 driver in that, which fixes a bunch of > KMS issues and should largely solve the jaunty performance problems. > > In fact even alpha-2 is a pretty solid advance for non-KMS cases and > should compare well against jaunty. Alpha-2 fixed a metric ton of > issues that had been reported against Jaunty, between the 2.6.30 kernel > and the updated X infrastructure (xserver+mesa+libdrm+-intel). > > Bryce > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:37:15AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_atom_os&num=2 >> "Beginning with the Java 2D Microbenchmark, the vector graphics >> performance was many times better under OpenSolaris 2009.06. However, >> the reason for this is quite simple. OpenSolaris 2009.06 continues to >> use all of the older X.Org/Mesa packages that were released previous >> to all of the invasive work that was done for the Graphics Execution >> Manager, DRI2, and kernel mode-setting. For months in many articles we >> have been talking about how the Intel 2D/3D performance has been >> drastically degraded and The Intel Linux Driver Kills The Netbook >> Experience. With Ubuntu 9.04 using the newer (bugged) Intel code while >> OpenSolaris is lagging behind with the X/Mesa packages is actually of >> benefit to Sun, but hopefully by the time the next OpenSolaris release >> rolls around (and Ubuntu 9.10), all of these Intel issues will be >> corrected. Some of the performance issues are in fact already >> corrected in their latest kernel, DDX, and Mesa code." >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-x mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x >> > >
-- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
