Bug#523719: Improvement
Looks like 2.6.30-rc2 provides some improvement with 3D acceleration. Please see this thread:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16477
I cleanly applied the patch mentioned for 2.6.28 to 2.6.29:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-jaunty.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f9ca66fcd73275db2c19dcf296360e9244f0332d;hp=da84f1cdd18b1b5c415633e1ce5c3b89c8cddc1
Performance is better, though still very sub par to windows. Skyrockets screen server or Alien Arena can
actually run about 5 fps or so now.
However, this is not with UXA, but EXA. It seems that the latest 2.7.0 driver breaks UXA. If I try to enable
UXA all I get is a black screen when I start X either using KMS or not. UXA at least worked before 2.7.0.
Though X has been more stable and I haven't had a single X session hang for a few days, so that is another
improvement.
I do see this in my Xserver logs though regarding UXA:
(WW) intel(0): DRI2 requires UXA
If I enable in xorg.conf: Option "AccelMethod" "UXA"
It causes the complete black screen. My xorg.conf section for Device section looks like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GMA X4500HD a.k.a. G45 and i965"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
# Option "VideoRam" "131072"
# Option "NoAccel" "false"
# Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
# Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
# Option "AccelMethod" "UXA"
# Option "ExaNoComposite" "false"
# Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
# Option "Tiling" "true"
# Option "DRI" "true"
# Option "XVideo" "true"
# Option "Legacy3D" "true"
EndSection
Chris
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