Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Karmic (9.10)
  2. Bug #252094
  3. Comment #231

Comment 231 for bug 252094

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Zorael (zorael) wrote : Re: [i965] Poor graphics performance and rendering errors on Intel GM965 system, Ubuntu 8.10

I have a netbook with an Intel Mobile 945GME Express video chipset, on which I run Kubuntu Intrepid. It's newish, like most netbooks, so I don't have data on its video performance in Feisty.

I'm running package version 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.1 of xserver-xorg-video-intel, INTEL_BATCH set to 1, and glxinfo reports direct rendering: Yes. With the repository 2.6.27.x kernel and modules, I get upwards of 580 fps in glxgears. After having compiled my own 2.6.28 release kernel, I get max 530. With xorg and intel packages from xorg-edgers ppas, I get max 80.

Is this user error, or has there been a considerable regression? Perhaps related to GEM being merged into the kernel? HAL takes care of configuration so my xorg.conf is basically empty. If UXA is default in the drivers from xorg-edgers, I guess that's why I used when I tried it. It's certainly EXA with Intrepid's.