[ubuntu-za] Intel graphics and Jaunty

[Sudhashen Naicker]

Trevor Hughes wrote:
> My aging gutsy (7.10) installation is falling apart and I do not 
> really want to spend time and energy fixing it when I already have the 
> brand spanking new Jaunty (9.04) installed in dual boot configuration.
>
> My Hp550 has an intel graphics card and that is my problem - very slow 
> graphics. I did a bit of googling and found this is a known problem 
> for some.
>
> I checked the xorg.0.log file and found the intel driver is being 
> loaded but there was a message that DRI was not loaded. and I think 
> this is the problem no? So I am not even sure I am having the driver 
> problem or something else is causing the failure.
>
> The new monitor set up is quite nice and quickly allowed me to 
> configure my lapto screen and external LCD screen as one large 
> desktop. I don't care too much for the fancy wizzy compiz effects and 
> I have alwasy thought they do not work on dual screen setups.
>
> What I am worried about is the dismal screen redraw rates. SO I am 
> turning my energy to get this sorted and can my gutsy install (and 
> free up all that hard drive space!)
>
> I saw 2 possible fixes - one involved grabbing a kernel from debian 
> sid - do not really want t go down that route and the other was 
> getting the old intel driver (2.4 I think) from Jaunty repos.
>
> Has anyone had this problem and how did they over come it. Also if you 
> need more details such as the exact Intel chip (i think it is 945 - 
> but not sure and not at my laptop now) - or any output from log files 
> or dmesg or whatever that would help let me know
>
> Thanks
>
> trev 
Hi Trev

Yes I got mine going(same graphics chip). Followed this guide and it 
fixed performance issues
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/intel-graphics-performance-guide-for-ubuntu-904-jaunty-users.html

I followed the second option - performance is fine if you don't enable 
desktop effects. However I like the productivity tools in compiz and 
that conflicted with my suspend function, screen would not come back up 
after suspend. I took out the experimental
> Option “AccelMethod” “UXA”
option and there is a performance lag but not as bad a before.

Cheers!

Sudhashen