Re: [Cooker] Slow machine

[Frederik Himpe]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:37:07AM +0100, Vincent Panel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently upgraded my laptop from a 2008.0 to cooker and found my
> system to be much slower than before. Specifically, when I enable
> compiz, switching from one desktop to another isn't as fluent as it
> used to be. Many games are also slower. Do you have something similar
> ? Do you think it's because of the graphic drivers or because of the
> kernel ?
> 
> glxgears shows approx. 820 frame/sec. I don't remember how much it was
> using 2008.0, though :-/
> 
> unknown         : Intel Corporation|Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML
> Express Integrated Graphics Controller [DISPLAY_OTHER] (vendor:8086
> device:27a6 subv:103c subd:30aa)
> Card:Intel 810 and later: Intel Corporation|Mobile 945GM/GMS,
> 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [DISPLAY_VGA]
> (vendor:8086 device:27a2 subv:103c subd:30aa)
> Linux mojo.dyndns.ws 2.6.24-laptop-0.rc8.2mdv #1 SMP Wed Jan 23
> 17:06:19 UTC 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5600  @ 1.83GHz
> GNU/Linux

It's a known problem that EXA, which is enabled by default in intel driver
is much slower. You have to disable it explicitly in xorg.conf for now.

-- 
Frederik Himpe