[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2014-03-13 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Hans-Peter, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1238188/comments/48 regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2014-03-10 Thread Hans-Peter
Please close this bug report. I moved on to 14.04 where the issue is gone! many thanks for your help Hans-Peter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238188 Title: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2014-01-13 Thread Hans-Peter
Christopher, I've already tried this earlier in the process (tried to bisect the kernel), but failed on it. Also I guess, bisecting is not really necessary, because we know the point in time when the error arose. On the other hand, in Trusty the problem is most possible solved. My plan now

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2014-01-10 Thread Hans-Peter
Christopher, I've already done this. First of all, I tried Ubuntu. But this was not very successful. It advanced up to the 'Ubuntu' writing. From there on, the red dot hopped until I stopped the system. I let it hop for about 5 minutes. regards, Hans-Peter -- You received this bug

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2014-01-10 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Hans-Peter, thank you for performing the requested test. The next step would be to fully commit bisect from Raring to Saucy in order to identify the offending commit. Could you please do this following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bisecting? -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2014-01-09 Thread Hans-Peter
Christopher, I tried with the latest kubuntu image. Unfortunately the desktop was not usable, because the mouse was missing and the desktop was only half build (kicker was missing...) but I was able to switch to a console screen and have a look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I found a lot of

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2014-01-09 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Hans-Peter, thank you for your comment. As a WORKAROUND test, could you please test an alternative DE (Xubuntu, Ubuntu, etc.) to see if a proper test would be able to be performed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2014-01-05 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Hans-Peter, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-05 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags added: regression-update -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238188 Title: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-05 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Restoring regression-update tag as per Bug Description: After the update on Sept. 30. all the graphics performance was gone. Given the results of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1238188/comments/32 this may not be kernel regression, but a regression in something else to be

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Hans-Peter
Christopher, I went to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/linux/ and followed the link show build which brought me to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/linux/+builds. There I found i386 build of linux 3.11.0-8.15 in ubuntu saucy on September 20th should be the one, which

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Hans-Peter
I tried kernels 3.11.0-9.16, 3.11.0.7.14, 3.5.0-26 (was on my disk, so gave it a try) All the same - no desktop effects (error message: 6 desktop effects could not be loaded because they require OpenGL). regards Hans-Peter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Hans-Peter
From Hardware info: *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: RS780C [Radeon 3100] From aptitude: i xserver-xorg-video-radeon

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Hans-Peter, before continuing to bisect, could you please discuss why you are using kernel parameter: elevator=noop -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238188 Title: [HP Compaq dc5850

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Hans-Peter
Christopher, I think this is a recommended performance setting with SSD's. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238188 Title: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Hans-Peter, would you have some documentation to support this conclusion? The following documentation discusses nothing about SSDs, but instead discusses VMWare with 2.6 kernels, which you are not using:

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Hans-Peter
Christopher, please see http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/SSD/Scheduler and search for elevator. It explains, that it is a disk IO Scheduling mechanism. Should not interfere with graphics. I'll get the development release tonight and test what's happening. greetings -- You received this bug

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
** Tags removed: regression-update -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238188 Title: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Hans-Peter
Booting without the elevator parameter doesn't change behaviour: No desktop effects. hp@hp:/proc$ cat cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-8-generic root=UUID=b24e5fc5-5982-48e7-b75f-478074b4687e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 hp@hp:/proc$ -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Hans-Peter
I had no success with the latest development release. System boots to the stage, where one can choose wether to try or to install ubuntu. when I chose try ubuntu, the screen got black, I saw the mouse pointer, which I could move around and this is how the system looks like the next 30 minutes

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-04 Thread Hans-Peter
** Description changed: On raring, my radeon 3100 was working pretty well. desktop cube switch was working, for example. Blur effect slowed the desktop down. When I upgraded to saucy on sept. 25 I soon noticed that the desktop was very fast. I could even enable blur effect and it didn't do

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-03 Thread Hans-Peter
Hi Christopher, thanks for your help. I had visited the HP download site. The enhancements of 3.14 were a more reliable flash process - so I didn't install it at first. But to be on the safe side, I did now. After finishing the flash process, I could not observe any changes. Same behaviour as

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-03 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags removed: bios-outdated-3.14a ** Tags added: latest-bios-3.14a ** Tags removed: kernel-bug-exists-upstream ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-v3.12-rc4 regression-potential -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-03 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags removed: regression-potential ** Tags added: regression-update -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238188 Title: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a

[Bug 1238188] Re: [HP Compaq dc5850 Small Form Factor PC] No desktop effects on a radeon 3100 graphics card in saucy

2013-11-03 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Hans-Peter, the next step is to fully commit bisect from the pre-Sept. 30 update to post, in order to identify the offending commit. Could you please do this following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection ? ** Tags added: needs-bisect -- You received this bug notification because you