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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

[i965] Sluggish performance on Intel video card

Bug #421232 reported by Andres Monroy-Hernandez on 2009-08-29

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

I am experiencing slowness again. Here is the info of my card:
lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 29 15:48:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: LENOVO 64771ZU
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
PccardctlIdent:

PccardctlStatus:

ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-8-generic root=UUID=e6e8ef1b-5e44-4d5c-b28a-7afbf11f009f ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu3
libdrm2 2.4.12+git20090801.45078630-0ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu6
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 09/01/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7TET34WW (1.08 )
dmi.board.name: 64771ZU
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7TET34WW(1.08):bd09/01/2008:svnLENOVO:pn64771ZU:pvrThinkPadX300:rvnLENOVO:rn64771ZU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 64771ZU
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X300
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-8-generic

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Andres Monroy-Hernandez (andresmh) wrote on 2009-08-29:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (52.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (722 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (97.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (220.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (68.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (91.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (6.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
glxinfo.txt Edit (16.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
monitors.xml.txt Edit (866 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (290 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (19.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (61.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2009-08-30

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2009-08-31

affects:

xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2009-09-02

tags:

added: karmic

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Tomasz Czapiewski (xeros) wrote on 2009-10-06:

How is the CPU usage? I'm getting almost 100% CPU usage by Xorg (both on LiveCD and installed system) on i865G and even window moving or text typing is as sluggish as waiting few seconds for display refresh.

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hewbert (josh-hewbert) wrote on 2009-10-09:

Same here, with a 945GM. There's a few different bug reports here on this, but titled to specific cards. Seems like a wide range of the Intel cards are affected.

I certainly hope the issues we're experiencing with performance is worked out through one of these reports.

These are a couple other reports that sound related:
416073
440986

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2009-10-09:

If you are seeing 100% CPU on Xorg, check to see if you are actually having bug 439138

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Andres Monroy-Hernandez (andresmh) wrote on 2009-10-09:

I am not seeing 100% CPU on Xorg, I just notice a slight but annoying slowdown compared to what I was experiencing before.

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Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd) wrote on 2009-10-12:

CPU usage seems normal. Screen redraws are significantly slower than they were two days ago.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2009-10-12:

I'm seeing similar; I noticed it while on the plane from Montreal, but its still affecting me with power in the house ... upgraded on thursday and before that it was a-ok.

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Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd) wrote on 2009-10-12:

I've found another symptom; when my laptop comes out of hibernate, the top 1/3 to 1/2 of the screen wallpaper is corrupted.

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Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd) wrote on 2009-10-18:

There have been a number of new releases of the xserver-xorg-video-intel package since this bug was raised, but I'm still seeing sluggish performance and screen corruption when the machine comes out of s2disk.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2009-10-18: Re: [Bug 421232] Re: Sluggish performance on Intel video card

#10

On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 20:59 +0000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> There have been a number of new releases of the xserver-xorg-video-intel
> package since this bug was raised, but I'm still seeing sluggish
> performance and screen corruption when the machine comes out of s2disk.

We're advised to file a new bug via ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg-video-intel,
as the slugishness we're seeing started well after this bug was opened,
so is likely a different issue.

-Rob

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Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd) wrote on 2009-10-19: Re: Sluggish performance on Intel video card

#11

Both the sluggish-ness and the screen corruption disappeared for me after upgrading to the 2.6.31-14-generic kernel and xserver-xorg-video-intel version 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2010-02-27

tags:

added: performance

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Matthew Woerly (nattgew) wrote on 2010-04-10:

#12

I'm running Lucid with
Kernel 2.6.32-19-generic
Intel 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu1
Graphics on my laptop seem slower than they were in Karmic. I added an external monitor and it's even slower.

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Caleb Scott Cupples (cscupples) wrote on 2010-04-15:

#13

I was seeing sluggish performance with Lucid, but by renicing Xorg to 6, the machine became lively and responsive again. YMMV, though.

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sancelot (sancelot) wrote on 2010-05-14:

#14

try enabling only Vga, adding 2 monitors section :

option Monitor "vga1"
Section "Device"
    Identifier "My Graphic Board"
    ...
    Option "Monitor-LVDS1" "lvds"
    Option "Monitor-VGA1" "vga"
  EndSection

  Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "vga"
    option "Enable" "true"
  EndSection

  Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "lvds"
    Option "Ignore" "true"

EndSection

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2011-04-28:

#15

Should be resolved now. If not, please file a new bug report.

summary:	- Sluggish performance on Intel video card + [i965] Sluggish performance on Intel video card
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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