Sounds like the kde session manager may have crashed, stalled and another copy got loaded. I'm not experienced enough with the internals of KDE to give you a deffinate hypothesis. A lot has changed from 3.5 up to 4.2.
Buntu is starting to become more like Slackware. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Ralf Philipp <i...@monatssong.de> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've the same problems with kubuntu and jaunty on a minimac with 945G. > After googling around I found different proposals. To get some solutions > to work I opened a file with 'sudo kate' from konsole. Kate was starting > but I got an error-message like this 'Could not start ksmserver. Check > your installation.'. After clicking OK to that message kdm (xorg?) is > doing a restart. After logging in back everything is going smooth. > glxgears makes 1100 fps (former 400fps) and all the dasktop effects and > 3d-games are working well. If I restart the machine I've again the slow > and sluggish desktop. I reproduced this behaviour serveral times. I > didn't touch any configuration files. > > -- > MASTER: Poor graphics performance on Intel > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252094 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > > Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Confirmed > Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: New > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Ubuntu: In Progress > Status in linux in Ubuntu Karmic: New > Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu Karmic: In Progress > > Bug description: > I experience significant performance loss with ubuntu 8.10 alpha 3 with my > Intel DG965WH based system and SVDO/ADD2 video card. Actually, the > performance loss started with ubuntu 8.04.1; I upgraded to see if there was > any performance gain with the new version. While "glxgears" produced values > between 1580 fps and 1496 fps with ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10, respectively, now I > can only achieve something like 445 fps with ubuntu 8.10 alpha 3. I get an > error message when starting glxgears that "TTM" was not available and > classic mode would be used. Similary, the flight simulator "flightgear" > achieves frames rates of 1-2 fps only. > My suspicion is that some of the hardware acceleration features of the > X3000 system are not being used, and I don't know how to activate them with > the new xorg.conf structure and the underlying automatic configuration > approach. > I would like to see the graphics performance go back to the values achieved > in ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10. > Your help / comment is greatly appreciated. > Bingo > > [Update] > Intel upstream has been in a multi-year effort to rearchitect X and the > Intel 2D and 3D driver to provide better performance. While this work is > underway, people are seeing variations in performance levels from version to > version, for a variety of reasons. There are probably multiple unrelated > bugs being reported in the comments here. > > It is important to note and remember that glxgears is *not* a benchmark > tool. It simply measures how fast the driver writes images to the screen, > whereas most 3D applications are limited by render speed, not merely blit > speed. Instead use a 3D game (flightgear, tremulous, etc.) that has a real > rendering workload to make comparisons. > > If you're definitely seeing performance problems and are able to narrow it > to a specific cause, please do not comment onto this bug report - it's too > lengthy and rambling already, and your issue will just be lost in the noise. > Instead, make a new report and please be as specific as possible with exact > steps to reproduce and as much detail and logs as you can. See > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting for tips on making a good X bug report. > > A troubleshooting guide, with additional background about performance > issues on Intel is available at: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/IntelPerformance > -- I tend to pee on things -- MASTER: Poor graphics performance on Intel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
