Thinking about downgrading

[Daniel Robitaille]

Interestingly I have the exact same card in this 5-year old laptop
(Dell Latitude 110l), and it's working fine for me.  I'm currently
running Lucid, but that laptop have seen all versions of Ubuntu since
Hoary.   But I haven't tried in a very long time to run a monitor on
it.

Daniel


2010/6/11 Victor Mendonça <victorbrca at yahoo.ca>:
> 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
>
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> Victor Mendonça
> http://wazem.org/
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> ----- 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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