[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

[unggnu]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252094 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252094

@salemboot
What do you want them to do? Enable UXA? This was tested and resulted in many freezes, crashes and other bugs with current -intel driver. Do you really think the Ubuntu team could fix all this bugs on their own?
Intel with Exa mostly works stable in the current driver and this is the important. Who uses Linux for gaming or an Intel graphic card for 3d cad anyway? If Ubuntu had pushed the 2.6.30 Kernel release in Jaunty it would break things for many other users.

So if anybody needs the whole unleashed -intel rendering power in glxgears he could use an older release like Hardy. This is still supported and will be fine until Karmic which will most likely shipped with KMS, UXA and most likely great Intel performance (finally).
I guess for most people Intel driver is fine in Jaunty anyway even with lower glxgears performance and enabled Overlay video output. No one really needs composite to work.

It is not Ubuntus fault if -intel developers decide to dump stable and
change the driver internals for two years and make them default shortly
after integration.

The problem of a distribution is that most things are dependent on each
other so if you decide e.g. not to upgrade X because of the problems
with the newer -intel driver other graphic cards might have huge issues
which are fixed in latest X. It is not easy to find a balance I guess.
That's why there is LTS and a 1.5 years support for every release.

But I agree that X should have two branches, one stable and one
experimental. Maybe this will happen with the stabilization of UXA and
KMS but I guess they will find new fancy features to integrate and the
latest driver will always need the latest X.

-- 
[i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342923
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu.