Bug#523719: Improvement
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:52:49AM -0600, Chris Dos wrote:
> 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.
What about intel 2.9.1-2 with kernel 2.6.32-3 from unstable
with KMS enabled?
Brice
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