So, the intel graphics drivers in 9.04 are making quite a few people sad.
Including me.
I’m keeping an eye on a few ppas, including the one the developers seem to be recommending: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/
It’s not perfect, but it is at least managed by ubuntu devs. It is also made for ubuntu.
In the mean time can people please stop advising end users to install random debian packages and/or repositories. Aside from the risks you are introducing to their systems, you’re teaching them really dirty, bad habits.
You know who you are, and you know, most of you really do know better. If you insist on continuing down this line, can you at least please start giving out your phone number when you give out dangerous advice. That way the poor suckers can call you when the crying starts.
Seriously, not even wobbly windows are not worth the pain you are lining up for later on.
Agreed %100 – if you can’t deal with not having wobbly windows for a few days while the issue is resolved properly – you need to get a grip.
Interesting. I’ll try it out.
Thanks
I am dealing with the same lack of driver love. I am using xfce4 for its compositing so I can use gnome-do’s docky. I miss the compiz expo plug-in more than I do wobbly windows.
I have also had problems with it. I upgraded my server/desktop to ‘Jaunty’ and I have not been able to get it to play video’s sense, and yes I am running the server release I have added a desktop because I use it to also watch movies, etc…My laptop is an Acer 6930 with the Intel Core™2 Duo processor Mobile Intel GM45 Express chipset and as you guy’s know this card is hit or miss with linux. It works perfect with Compiz-fusion and other apps. Except video play back. Number one problem is Screen Tearing when the camera pan’s out. I have tried compiling a new (svn) release of MPlayer, and turned off ALL plugins and ofc that didn’t fix it. Then I went in and removed then reinstalled everything related to video play back. I also tried disabling Compiz and enabling emerald. Now most of these is in the. If anyone would like to try some of these Post another coment and I’ll list the links to these post’s for you.
Hello, Melissa!
Could you help me a bit in making those drivers not suck in the end? I’m another user with Intel video that gets bitten by slowness in Jaunty. I’ve subscribed to the PPA you mentioned and got a crash (no offense, it’s a testing package after all). Now I want to report this crash with Xorg.log and may be help to debug something on my machine. Do you know the *relevant* ticket where this issue may already being tracked? Or is it better to file a new one, and if yes where to assign it?
It appears I can’t for the life of me get anything useful out of Launchpad by myself. I always get stuck in some kind-of-seemingly-relevant tickets only to find a couple of months later that nobody cares about it and it become some place to complain about everything :-).
Agreed, better keep a sane system than try to patch it dirty.
But, it is not better to keep giving false hope.
Xorg server 1.6 should never have been imported in Ubuntu 9.04, in the first place. “Fixing the driver” or “trying to get the 2.7.x intel driver to compile” will not solve the problem. Since Xorg server 1.5.x the eco-system Xorg-server + Intel driver + Kernel DRM(2) is so moving, there is no real point of stability, and it will be in this stage for a while.
you won’t get anything with an Intel driver 2.7.x which is way more complete than 2.6.x was, WRT DRI2 and Kernel Mode Setting, and which is way not complete for the rest :)
Here I run nearly the whole git X tree with latest kernel (mesa git, libdrm git, xorg-server git, libX* git’s, and 2.6.30-rc) and it ~~~works, but crashes quite too often to be called stable. However, the 3D experience is quite good :)
You want something TESTED, and STABLE with Intel drivers + 3D effects/compositing ? you go for Xorg-server 1.5.x and intel driver 2.6.x. More recent and you will have headaches.
By the way, I don’t know if you refered to David Faure in your article, (http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3942) but if yes, I can’t agree: he did it quite seriously, and this is no Debian package, it is a Forward-ported version from Intrepid to Jaunty of xorg-server ;)
Elaine:
Try Kwin. It’s compositing fine with Intel and has many of the same features as Compiz. Only Compiz has Intel blacklisted.
LOL
My problem is that the Intel driver does not support DRI with a virtual screen of more than 2048×2048. Because I have two monitors, that leaves me without any acceleration. Even a standard 2D desktop is painfully slow (unlike under Windows, where it works fine).
So my solution was to stick a cheap NVidia card into the system. The BIOS takes 20 seconds longer to boot now, but otherwise it works great.
Conclusion: Intel is trying, but not there yet. NVidia may be a BLOB, but at least it works.
I have to be honest, I was very disappointed with no Intel driver for Jaunty. So disappointed that I formatted my laptop back to Vista. I’m not trying to start a flame war but all zealots went on and on about Nvidia and ATI drivers being proprietary and not having the full source available. Intel gave you guys full source and it got mucked up. So, what’s the lesson here? Proprietary drivers do work because on my desktop with a nVidia card, I have full desktop effects.
When all is said and done desktop effects are not that big a deal for me but all the hub-bub over proprietary drivers and weather or not they should be included a few releases back culminated in even when the full source is available things get screwed, while the closed source drivers are plugging along just fine.. It just makes me laugh out loud and disproves just about every argument for open source code.
Just my .02,
Dan
Disappointed by jaunty as well because of shitty intel driver and some other regressions. I was even thinking of ditching linux…. but i’ll bare a few weeks longer perhaps hoping for some nice updates.
I’m using blender on regular basis… and with the current intel drivers, it displays like crap. Not cool at all, canonical!
Guys, if you don’t want to deal with testing packages, you can add this to xorg.conf:
Option “MigrationHeuristic” “greedy”
in the video device section. It’ll use Intrepid’s settings.
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Have a look at this patch: drm/i915: Allow frame buffers up to 4096×4096 on 915/945 class hardware :)