[ubuntu-za] Intel graphics and Jaunty

[Morgan Collett]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:55, Trevor Hughes <linux at thewildfig.co.za> wrote:
> My aging gutsy (7.10) installation is falling apart and I do not really want
> to spend time and energy fixing it when I already have the brand spanking
> new Jaunty (9.04) installed in dual boot configuration.
>
> My Hp550 has an intel graphics card and that is my problem - very slow
> graphics. I did a bit of googling and found this is a known problem for
> some.
>
> I checked the xorg.0.log file and found the intel driver is being loaded but
> there was a message that DRI was not loaded. and I think this is the problem
> no? So I am not even sure I am having the driver problem or something else
> is causing the failure.
>
> The new monitor set up is quite nice and quickly allowed me to configure my
> lapto screen and external LCD screen as one large desktop. I don't care too
> much for the fancy wizzy compiz effects and I have alwasy thought they do
> not work on dual screen setups.
>
> What I am worried about is the dismal screen redraw rates. SO I am turning
> my energy to get this sorted and can my gutsy install (and free up all that
> hard drive space!)
>
> I saw 2 possible fixes - one involved grabbing a kernel from debian sid - do
> not really want t go down that route and the other was getting the old intel
> driver (2.4 I think) from Jaunty repos.
>
> Has anyone had this problem and how did they over come it. Also if you need
> more details such as the exact Intel chip (i think it is 945 - but not sure
> and not at my laptop now)  - or any output from log files or dmesg or
> whatever that would help let me know

Are you saying that it works well with Gutsy but the exact same
resolution doesn't work with Jaunty, or is it the dual screen setup?

A recent nvidia driver update let me use compiz for the first time on
my laptop, but I noticed that with desktop effects enabled at all, on
dual screen it gives really slow screen redraw. Turning it off solved
that.

Regards
Morgan