How to troubleshoot intel 3D performance?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Vasily Khoruzhick at 16/02/09 19:44 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi, performance issue is known thing on pre-965 chipsets with new intel stuff 
> (gem, uxa).
> 
> I've filed bugs about them:
> 
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19873
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19738
> 
> AFAIK there's no fix at the moment, but as workaround you can use 2.6.27 
> kernel and EXA accelleration.

This is going to cause some pretty bad press for Intel when the next set 
of distros ship which will be pretty soon. Fedora, Mandriva and Ubuntu 
all have releases coming up and if I'm not mistaken they will be 
shipping 2.6.28 or .29 kernels.

This really needs to be addressed guys :(

Col
(who is still stuck on a .27 kernel and is feeling left out)


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