Thinking about downgrading
Victor Mendonça
victorbrca at yahoo.ca
Sat Jun 12 01:18:27 UTC 2010
I have the Intel i915. This card has always given me headaches since I started using Ubuntu. One of the main differences right now is that I have a 22" inch monitor plugged in, but even without the monitor X is still slow.
Take a look at firefox. I have 5 tabs open at the moment.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28965 victor 20 0 766m 300m 40m S 9.7 15.0 825:46.89 firefox
28613 victor 20 0 2468 1064 784 R 3.9 0.1 0:00.02 top
1500 victor 20 0 95912 12m 10m S 1.9 0.6 311:57.90 pulseaudio
victux ~ $ lspci -vvv -d 8086:2592
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01c9
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at dff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Region 1: I/O ports at eff8 [size=8]
Region 2: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at dfec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
Victor Mendonça
http://wazem.org/
----- Original Message ----
From: Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 8:52:37 PM
Subject: Re: Thinking about downgrading
2010/6/11 Victor Mendonça <victorbrca at yahoo.ca>:
> Hi Phil,
>
> I have actually never upgraded, I always do a fresh install. The only difference is that last install I think I kept my /home part.
>
> I'm still not sure what the problem is. It seems that X is dragging, and having Firefox open only makes it worse. I just haven't had the time to troubleshoot it really.
Do you have an nVidia graphics card? My desktop does and Firefox has
been a little clunky because of it for a while now.
I haven't spent a lot of time investigating, but maybe there's a way
to downgrade the driver rather than the whole system...
Darcy.
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