No problem! I don't still have the D620 (or run 16.04 on anything...). Side note, Intel GPU drivers sure have come along way since then! Back in the day, the Intel driver OpenGL was somewhat questionable, it worked or it didn't with various games and 3D-using stuff.... see this very bug report. Now I can generally run anything even under wine and proton up to the limits of the hardware. I.e. you won't be running dx12 games on a 10 year old Intel GPU but it'll do dx11...whether it'll do it fast enough is another matter but better drivers can't do anything for the GPU being too slow. Well apparently they can to some extent -- the cherry on the cake, my friend's (almost as old as the D620) Sandy Bridge system got about a 40-50% FPS improvement with some Mesa/Intel stack changes in 2020 or so (and has kept that extra speed in 22.04) and I saw 30%+ speedups on a few other Intel GPU systems I had around that time.
(This was not a matter of Intel GPU drivers being slow before; on the contrary, running some games on Intel GPU head-to-head between Windows and Linux with wine or proton shows higher framerates in Linux virtually across the board.) Great job Xorg, Mesa, and Intel driver devs! --Henry -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643239 Title: Xorg crash on compiz login, with Intel 945 Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I went to install Ubuntu (via systemback) onto some Dell D620s, and found "Gnome Flashback (compiz)" crashes back to login prompt, while "Gnome Flashback (Metacity)" does not. The attached logs reflect booting up, (attempting to) log in with Flashback (compiz) then logging in with Flashback (Metacity) to file a bug report. This may be chipset-specific, as I have several other rather antiquated systems: Intel 865-based (Compaq DC5000): Works. (Using LLVMPipe -- this chip is missing a few OpenGL features compiz requires.) Intel 915-based (Dell Inspiron 2200): Works. Intel 945-based (Dell Latitude D620): Crashes to login prompt (this is the machine in this bug report.) Intel 965-based (Dell Latitude 755?): Works. Intel G35-based (slightly newer Dell Latitude 755): Works. I can rule out software differences; since I knew Compiz worked on a 915, I assumed I'd screwed up my systemback LiveUSB somehow, and test- ran it on the D620, 2200, and one of the 755s, and it worked on the 2200 and 755. Left up to me, I'd categorize this as severity "low", I'm just setting these to Flashback Metacity and then stability seems fine. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic i686 .tmp.unity_support_test.0: ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: i386 BootLog: SB@: clean, 208182/2244608 files, 1302234/8973568 blocks CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:Unity Date: Sat Nov 19 10:12:40 2016 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: xenial DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [1028:01c2] Subsystem: Dell Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [1028:01c2] InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-29 (203 days ago) InstallationMedia: MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D620 PccardctlIdent: Socket 0: no product info available PccardctlStatus: Socket 0: no card ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-47-generic root=UUID=702f73f8-ca72-4102-9c59-48f182329bfa ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display Title: Xorg crash UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 05/16/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A10 dmi.board.name: 0TD761 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd05/16/2008:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD620:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0TD761:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: Latitude D620 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160823-0ubuntu1 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.16.04.2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1.1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2 xserver.bootTime: Sat Nov 19 10:12:01 2016 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: product id 0 vendor LPL xserver.version: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1643239/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
