And same here, trying to use the radeon driver -- just upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04. I tried installing drivers from the following PPA https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers -- no improvement as you can see. I am not running in a VM.
$ glxinfo | grep -i string server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI client glx version string: 1.4 OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits) OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.0-devel (git-f6db414 trusty-oibaf-ppa) OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 $ sudo lshw -C video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: RV790 [Radeon HD 4890] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=0 resources: irq:46 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fe8e0000-fe8effff ioport:c000(size=256) memory:fe8c0000-fe8dffff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268146 Title: Very high cpu usage for compiz in 14.04 (mesa incorrectly using llvmpipe) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1268146/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ 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