Basic Games very slow using Jaunty and 865 intel video eg Super Tux ;-)

[KDontenville]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

General Gnome session works fine, all standard X stuff seems to work well. However, when starting any full screen game the display crawls at such a slow rate that mouse movement and any simple screen activity takes many seconds to complete.

I have seen plenty of catastrophic failures reported and I have followed advice and suggestions given there (eg libdrm-intel1, changing xorg to disable acceleration/dri etc etc) but the problem never changes for the better.

In Intrepid and previous incarnations the video was OK, never intended to be a blistering games machine but a simple 2d platform game cant be too much ;-)

Any ideas?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #40-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 3 17:39:51 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Looks like you have DRI disabled. DRI provides 3d acceleration so it is not a wonder that you see games are slow.

Unfortunately, on 865 DRI simply doesn't work right. But that's another bug...