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Re: freezes with ubuntu jaunty

 

Here is a test, i dont know if is this the test that you want, if not tell
me.

2009/5/30 Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>

> It would be interesting to benchmark the default installation with the UXA
> method on the intel card.
> If you can spare a few minutes of your time, can you try the qgears2 test
> on your current configuration?
>
> sudo apt-get install php5-gd
> wget
> http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/releases/repo/pts.debian/files/phoronix-test-suite_1.8.1_all.deb
> sudo dpkg -i phoronix-test-suite_1.8.1_all.deb
> phoronix-test-suite install qgears2
> phoronix-test-suite benchmark qgears2
>
> Thank you,
>
> Albert.
>
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Jaume Darder Muxi <jaumedarder@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi i didn't had sporadic freezes like you,  but sometimes the desktop
>> performance using compiz was very poor, with many slowdowns when doing
>> desktop cube switching or scale the windows, and activating the UXA method
>> in the xorg.conf as it says here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/UxaTesting solved
>> my performance problems, and i dont noticed  inestability or any bug as it
>> says in the link i posted above. The desktop is going perfecty now. Maybe it
>> can solve your problems too, and if not you also can try this:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4 that
>> will revert the intel grafic drivers to version 2.4 . Hope this helps
>> someway Cheers
>>
>> 2009/5/29 Mario <mario.tux@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Dears,
>>> I have some problems with sporadic freezes on my Z21MN using Ubuntu
>>> Jaunty (the only distribution I've used on it). I already know that
>>> there are several problems with the current drivers of the Intel graphic
>>> card. There a HUGE report about this problem in the ubuntu bug system:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/359392
>>> The bug is not yet fixed. This is really annoying.
>>>
>>> I'm writing here just to know if who use the Intel graphics card (I
>>> guess many of us) has these kind of freezes. If no, could you report
>>> some information like: distribution, kernel version and intel graphics
>>> card driver version?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Mario
>>>
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="pts-results-viewer.xsl" ?>
<!-- Generated: 2009-05-30 17:54:46 -->
<PhoronixTestSuite>
	<Benchmark>
		<Name>QGears2</Name>
		<Version></Version>
		<Attributes>Rendering: OpenGL - Test: Gears</Attributes>
		<Scale>Frames Per Second</Scale>
		<Proportion>HIB</Proportion>
		<ResultFormat>BAR_GRAPH</ResultFormat>
		<TestName>qgears2</TestName>
		<TestArguments>-gl GEARSFANCY </TestArguments>
		<Results>
			<Group>
				<Entry>
					<Identifier>2009-05-30 17:53</Identifier>
					<Value>83.03</Value>
					<RawString>80.5967391304:86.6487777778:81.8621818182</RawString>
				</Entry>
			</Group>
		</Results>
	</Benchmark>
	<System>
		<Hardware>Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P9500 @ 2.53GHz (Total Cores: 2), Motherboard: Sony VGN-Z21WN_B, Chipset: Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Hub + ICH9M-E, System Memory: 2957MB, Disk: 250GB TOSHIBA MK2552GS, Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset IGP (rev 07)</Hardware>
		<Software>OS: Ubuntu 9.04, Kernel: 2.6.28-11-generic (i686), Desktop: GNOME 2.26.1, Display Server: X.Org Server 1.6.0, Display Driver: intel 2.6.3, OpenGL: 2.0 Mesa 7.4, Compiler: GCC 4.3.3, File-System: ext2/ext3, Screen Resolution: 1600x900</Software>
		<Author>jaume</Author>
		<TestDate>May 30, 2009 05:54 PM</TestDate>
		<TestNotes>2D Acceleration: UXA. 
Compiz and Firefox were running on this system. 
Intel SpeedStep Technology was enabled. 
This computer was running on battery power</TestNotes>
		<Version>1.8.1</Version>
		<AssociatedIdentifiers>2009-05-30 17:53</AssociatedIdentifiers>
	</System>
	<Suite>
		<Title>openGltestgears</Title>
		<Name>qgears2</Name>
		<Version>1.0.1</Version>
		<Description>This test runs qgears2, which is a test written by Zack Rusin and is based upon cairogears. This test can see how well different rendering backends perform and uses Qt4.</Description>
		<Type>Graphics</Type>
		<Extensions></Extensions>
		<TestProperties></TestProperties>
	</Suite>
</PhoronixTestSuite>

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