Comment 115 for bug 252094

Perhaps this conversation should be moved to a forum, and the link pasted
here? I'm getting a lot of email.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:14 AM, the designer <email address hidden>wrote:

> how can I test the latest mesa?
>
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> Poor graphics performance and rendering errors on Intel GM965 system,
> Ubuntu 8.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252094
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> Status in "xserver-xorg-video-intel" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel
>
> I experience significant performance loss with ubuntu 8.10 alpha 3 with my
> Intel DG965WH based system and SVDO/ADD2 video card. Actually, the
> performance loss started with ubuntu 8.04.1; I upgraded to see if there was
> any performance gain with the new version. While "glxgears" produced values
> between 1580 fps and 1496 fps with ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10, respectively, now I
> can only achieve something like 445 fps with ubuntu 8.10 alpha 3. I get an
> error message when starting glxgears that "TTM" was not available and
> classic mode would be used. Similary, the flight simulator "flightgear"
> achieves frames rates of 1-2 fps only.
> My suspicion is that some of the hardware acceleration features of the
> X3000 system are not being used, and I don't know how to activate them with
> the new xorg.conf structure and the underlying automatic configuration
> approach.
> I would like to see the graphics performance go back to the values achieved
> in ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10.
> Your help / comment is greatly appreciated.
> Bingo
>