Reverting to the intrepid version of the intel driver

[Michael Larabel]

Philip Wyett wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 01:55 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 17:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>>     
>>> Some hard numbers comparing performance of different options:
>>>
>>>  http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_intel_greedy
>>>       
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_intel_greedy&num=1
>>
>>     
>
> Damn, try again.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13700
>
> Their at page links are not friendly at all :-)
>
>   

All three of those links should work.

At 
http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=profile&u=phoronix-3867-14354-11729 
are results when using the Linux 2.6.30-rc2 kernel with some i915 
kernels, which did bring some improvements, but these results plus 
others can be found in the ubuntu-x mail archives now.

Michael

>>> Bryce
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:48:35AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hey folks.
>>>>
>>>> At least on my hardware (intel 945GM) intrepid performed much better
>>>> than jaunty. The reason is the upgrade of the intel driver from the 2.4
>>>> branch to 2.6. I've therefore assembled a replacement package that
>>>> reverts the intel driver back to the 2.4 branch.
>>>>
>>>> The instructions how to install that package can be seen here:
>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4
>>>>
>>>> Please provide feedback on that page. It works at least for me much
>>>> better.
>>>>
>>>> How about adding that package to universe for jaunty?
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Gruesse/greetings,
>>>> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
>>>>
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