Comment 6 for bug 900795
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| Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper) wrote | #6 |
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Christopher,
my original bug report was with the oneiric version of Ubuntu. Since then, things have much approved with intel i915 graphics. They are, how ever, far from good, even with the saucy release.
This is the network for a German school with approx. 700 users. We have eight LTSP servers and all identical clients. Those clients are Pentium IV machines with onboard intel graphics. They *all* suffer from the intel graphics problems, which persist since I began my duty at this school, which was with the jaunty release. Since then, intel graphics have *never* worked, and they continue not to work until today (since 4,5 years!): Intel graphics on Ubuntu with remote X is a constant source of concern.
To clarify my setting: I run Edubuntu 13.10 on a number of LTSP clients. This means *the X client is remote* -- a thing that X was explicitly designed for. Actually this is the only reason that there is X: Running low-power terminals on a high-power server.
This should work like hell. But: It doesn't. Not at all.
- There is no hardware acceleration with my Intel clients with remote X
- graphics lock up at unpredictable times
- graphics reproducibly fail on certain applications
- I cannot even log in with Unity or the gnome-flashback
In short: remote X does not work with intel clients in any other mode but VGA mode. This mode makes my P-IV-clients react and look like rubbish. And that's about the impression that my students get from Ubuntu at my school. Sorry for telling you the truth: Ubuntu makes for a very bad experience on distributed, older hardware. When I began my career, I learned that this was Linux's original domain: low-power hardware in distributed networks. Looks this is no longer true.
I will go and test the current release and current kernel and help wherever I can. However, I cannot understand how a chipset that is around for many years now and built onto a relevant number of mainboards is still not working in Ubuntu -- the distribution that prides itself in supporting the most hardware.