I ran into this issue as well, and switching from the modesetting driver
back to the intel driver in xorg.conf has helped tremendously. I went
from 15.10 through 16.04 (which was entirely broken for me, something
involving compiz I think) to 16.10, which worked, but had terrible
graphical performance. As for my hardware, I'm on an Acer Aspire v7,
using an Intel Haswell i7-4500U with HD Graphics 4400 (there's also an
nvidia GT750M, but I selected intel with prime-select, otherwise I get a
login loop). Running with the modesetting drivers, I found compiz
regularly had 5 processes going, each reporting as using 30% of a core,
and any sort of animation was unbearably choppy. I even had lag on the
lockscreen. I found that in the Xorg.0.log, it said:
[ 8.690] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
[ 8.690] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
[ 8.785] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
[ 8.786] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast
[ 8.786] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
while with only changing to the intel driver, I see:
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context_profile
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_EXT_create_context_es{,2}_profile
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_INTEL_swap_event
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap backed by buffer objects
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness
[ 8.687] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized i965
[ 8.687] (II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 0
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632165
Title:
modesetting driver unbearably slow on intel graphics
Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
After upgrading to Yakkey, I found the graphics performance of my
MacBookPro12,1 (13", 2015, retina/hidpi display) became unbearably
slow - switching workspaces, playing games, even just scrolling web
browser tabs was visibly slower. The computer became constantly warm,
and battery life dropped.
Switching from using from modesetting back to the intel driver fixed
these problems.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-21.23-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 11 11:47:47 2016
DistUpgraded: 2016-10-05 14:48:30,702 ERROR got error from PostInstallScript
./xorg_fix_proprietary.py (g-exec-error-quark: Failed to execute child process
"./xorg_fix_proprietary.py" (No such file or directory) (8))
DistroCodename: yakkety
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation Iris Graphics 6100 [8086:162b] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
Subsystem: Apple Inc. Iris Graphics 6100 [106b:013f]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-22 (446 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64
(20150422)
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ac:0273 Apple, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ac:8290 Apple, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro12,1
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.8.0-21-generic
root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--gnome--vg-root ro quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor
i915.fastboot=1 vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg-server
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-05 (5 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/28/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP121.88Z.0167.B14.1509281135
dmi.board.name: Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: MacBookPro12,1
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP121.88Z.0167.B14.1509281135:bd09/28/2015:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro12,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-E43C1C25D4880AD6:rvrMacBookPro12,1:cvnAppleInc.:ct9:cvrMac-E43C1C25D4880AD6:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro12,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.70-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 12.0.3-1ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 12.0.3-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.99.917+git20160706-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-2
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