Intel Linux Driver Kills The Netbook Experience

[elect]

OT: Welcome to Italy


Plz take in account that Berlusconi is an idiot and some of us are NOT like him

[Eragon]

Isn?t having a Free Software video card driver just great?

I am so happy Nvidia provides decent,if closed-source, drivers. They actually WORK. That?s most important, I?d figure

[FireBurn]

Oh yes and as others have mentioned are you absolutely sure that it's an Intel driver issue? If so how did you pin point the problem?

[FireBurn]

Have you submitted a bug report on either Launchpad or on freedesktop.org's bugzilla.

It seems a bit harsh using an article to effectively bash Intel. Especially considering it's Ubuntu's choice what driver version is shipped. It would be interesting to see if the same behaviour existed for their new 2.7 driver

Mike

[laurencevde]

You're using an OCZ core V2. They're notorious for "locking" up when writing small amounts of data. Use btrfs as your filesystem(in ssd-mode). That'll fix things.

[joolz]

This is not Intel specific. You are all experiencing this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/131094

[grege]

That sounds like a different issue then. The regression mentioned in the article is specific only to certain Intel gpus. The cause is likely the update from Mesa 7.3 to 7.4. The symptoms are different from what you describe. I will frequently hear audio files continue to play smoothly, and the computer seems to continue to operate, however the screen freezes (except for the mouse).

Worth a try though. My EeePC has an Intel GPU. Also I had random screen freezes with 8.10, always associated with frantic disk activity. We are talking Netbooks here with solid state drives. A switch to ext2 seems to have fixed that. If using ext4 it is probably worth turning off journalising.

All I am suggesting is to not assume it is the Intel video driver, it may be, but other issues can be at fault.

cheers

[TobiasTheViking]

I haven't had crashes with UXA, but it doesn't seem to resolve the freezing issue either.

Sorry, i meant freezing, not crashing, fixed my post

[maccam94]

I have 9.04 on my EeePC 900 (Celeron) and do not have the symptoms you report. But I did until I stopped the indexing daemon. By running the System Monitor I searched for the reason my mp3 playback kept having glitches. The system was often hitting 100% CPU usage. I went into System -> Preferences -> Search and Indexing. The box for Enable Indexing was not ticked, yet the system monitor said the daemon was running. So I enabled it, then disabled it. I also tried fiddled the settings for Resource usage, selecting Minimise Memory Usage. Anyhow, turning on indexing then turning it off again did the trick and now it runs smoothly.

That sounds like a different issue then. The regression mentioned in the article is specific only to certain Intel gpus. The cause is likely the update from Mesa 7.3 to 7.4. The symptoms are different from what you describe. I will frequently hear audio files continue to play smoothly, and the computer seems to continue to operate, however the screen freezes (except for the mouse).

[grege]

I have 9.04 on my EeePC 900 (Celeron) and do not have the symptoms you report. But I did until I stopped the indexing daemon. By running the System Monitor I searched for the reason my mp3 playback kept having glitches. The system was often hitting 100% CPU usage. I went into System -> Preferences -> Search and Indexing. The box for Enable Indexing was not ticked, yet the system monitor said the daemon was running. So I enabled it, then disabled it. I also tried fiddled the settings for Resource usage, selecting Minimise Memory Usage. Anyhow, turning on indexing then turning it off again did the trick and now it runs smoothly.