Forwarding this bug from Ubuntu reporter dmandell: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/451697 [Problem] Performance regression from 2.8.1 to 2.9.0 [Original Description] I'd been using Karmic for the last couple of weeks and did an upgrade to get latest last night. After a reboot I logged in and overall performance was really lousy. Scrolling from within a window, dragging a window around, typing within a window were glacially slow. Any time I did any of the above things Xorg pegged the CPU. I tried rebooting again, that didn't work. I also tried rebooting and using an older kernel, that also didn't work. What managed to get everything back to normal was reverting from xserver-xorg-video-intel_2%3a2.9.0-1ubuntu2_i386.deb to xserver-xorg-video-intel_2%3a2.8.1-1ubuntu2_i386.deb. After another reboot performance was as it was before the update. All other packages remain as they are. This is (apparently) not related to the cryptsetup version (bug439138), as I don't have it installed: cryptsetup:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 2:1.0.6+20090405.svn49-1ubuntu4   Version table:      2:1.0.6+20090405.svn49-1ubuntu4 0         500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages I'd be glad to help debug this problem, but I probably can't do it during work hours because my laptop is more or less unusable for work while in this state. Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 14 15:07:05 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Lsusb:  Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub  Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub  Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub  Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub  Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub MachineType: LENOVO 6371CTO Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2 PccardctlIdent:  Socket 0:    no product info available PccardctlStatus:  Socket 0:    no card ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=ee48f072-05a2-49ef-989f-a518e7496a51 ro quiet splash vga=794 ProcEnviron:  PATH=(custom, user)  LANG=en_US.UTF-8  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic RelatedPackageVersions:  xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5  libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4  libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1  xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2  xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686 dmi.bios.date: 07/13/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 7IET30WW (1.11 ) dmi.board.name: 6371CTO 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:bvr7IET30WW(1.11):bd07/13/2007:svnLENOVO:pn6371CTO:pvrThinkPadT60:rvnLENOVO:rn6371CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 6371CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T60 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO system:   architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-11-generic
The immediate suspicion is software fallbacks... Though we've had another report of nearly 100% of the cpu time spinning within the kernel. Bryce, if you can guide the original reporter through gathering a useful sysprof (debugging symbols for the whole stack is a must!) that would be very useful, thanks. T60 is i945, correct? Useful to confirm that with lspci.
You're right that it is 945: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2017] 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:201a] However from glxinfo doesn't look like SW rendering is in use: direct rendering: Yes OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 x86/MMX/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 7.6
Created attachment 30425 [details] BootDmesg.txt
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Created attachment 30427 [details] XorgLog.txt
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Created attachment 30429 [details] glxinfo.txt
Ah, the critical detail is that the attached Xorg.log is the wrong one! In fact it is for driver version 2.8.0 from the configuration the original reporter reported as working. The relevant lines of fail from the Xorg.log.old is: (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or directory (EE) intel(0): Failed to become DRM master. causing the driver to fallback to software rendering entirely. For whatever reason udev has not instantiated the revelant device node, typically /dev/dri/card0, for the module (the i915 module itself is loaded). This sounds like a system configuration issue above and beyond the driver/xserver.
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