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(Intel drivers being replaced with much more unstable replacements). Ugh, I had this same problem. Every time I upgraded Ubuntu, hardware rendering got another
by AngryParsley 17y ago
(Intel drivers being replaced with much more unstable replacements).
Ugh, I had this same problem. Every time I upgraded Ubuntu, hardware rendering got another 10x performance decrease and more bugs. Eventually I couldn't even enable vsync, so I got horrible tearing while watching videos. I partially blame Ubuntu for this, since they could have held back Intel's driver updates. Ultimately though, it was Intel's fault for releasing ever-buggier drivers.
A lot of the bugs you're talking about were fixed in updates to 9.10, but I gave up and got a Mac way before that.
- ori_b 17y agoThe problem is that X had a massive amount of crap in it. Getting rid of the crap is hard, and things really had to get worse before they got better. Switching acceleration architectures to something that's not from the '80s, allowing modern hardware to effectively accelerate the UI, allowing video to interact with OpenGL and so on needed to be done, and there was really no good way to do it painlessly.
- AngryParsley 17y agoI can think of one way: don't put new drivers in your distro until they're at least as good as old drivers.
- nailer 17y agoExactly. Have a variety of text hardware and a video test suite. Don't release the new drivers until they pass.