Is it just me...

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Friday 22 January 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Friday 22 January 2010 13:04:09 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > On Friday 22 January 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > On Thursday 21 January 2010 20:08:30 Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > > ...or did the latest karmic kernel upgrade really help with
> > > > Intel based on- board graphic cards? I really enjoy my
> > > > almost silent box now :-)
> > > > 
> > > > (82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02))
> > > 
> > > Maybe it is just me :-)
> > 
> > No, and if you read the release notes, you would know why...
> > There was also a huge bug in 9.04's intel driver, which didn't
> > help either, so if you upgraded from there, you would *really*
> > feel the difference...
> 
> I skipped 9.04 and went to 9.10 with a re-installation. Do you
> have a link for the the kernel update release notes - few days
> ago. I must have missed that. But I have noticed that the Intel
> drivers are really coming up to speed.

This has nothing to do with the kernel - it's purely X server 
related. And the release notes I was talking about are the Ubuntu 
release notes, which you should *really* look at before moving to a 
new version...
If you want to know the reason for the difference in performance, 
search for EXA and UXA.

  --Reinhold