OK, an oddity for me today I thought I would post. I also had very slow UI since updating from Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 to 14.10. Workspace or window switching was slow as molasses. Seemed the two apps for me that made window switching real slow were Evolution and Firefox. Once I quit those things seemed normal.
I have been running my i7 based system from the Intel 4000 based on board graphics as I could not get my nVidia 750ti to work. Therefore I had BIOS set to use the on-board video. Today I decided to set video back to PCI1 that my nVidia is connected to but leave the HDMI display connected to my on-board video. Took longer to boot but she did boot and guess what..... my system is running much faster UI now. Those problem apps from before that bogged down the workspace switching.... not doing it any more. Really strange but for me.... the UI is peppy again. I will run like this for a day or two to see what happens. TJ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1386721 Title: Graphics Slow After Upgrade 14.04 - 14.10 Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Using Gnome Ubuntu 14.10, Dell XPS 13, intel 915 Graphics After upgrading from 14.04 to 14.10 there are a lot of places where the graphics are working much slower than they were before: - Gnome Shell Interface is very sluggish, visible "chops" (redrawing) when pressing the [Super] key. - Selecting text in Gedit takes a full second pr. line Experiences some subjective improvement when I booted kernel 3.13.0-37 instead of 3.16.0-23, but that may be my imagination as the problem persists. I've searched google, forums, found a couple of relevant links that point to the issue being the Intel drivers. http://askubuntu.com/questions/53962...E2%86%92-14-10 http://www.webupd8.org/2014/10/ubunt...ent-1652086424 But the drivers currently in 14.10 should be newer than those supplied by Intel to 14.04 so that doesn't make sense to me. As one Intel developer wrote: "I would like to point out that since what we do is bring more ecent versions of the software to the target distributions than they ship with, a 14.04 targeted installer is unlikely to bring much to a 14.10 installation, which most likely has the same or more recent versions already anyway." Source: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/node/375 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Tue Oct 28 15:24:30 2014 DistUpgraded: 2014-10-25 20:59:36,052 DEBUG enabling apt cron job DistroCodename: utopic DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: i915-3.15-3.13, 0.01, 3.13.0-37-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:060a] InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-14 (135 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2) MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS13 9333 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic root=UUID=105bbbd1-365e-4063-bdca-fc5431faf5dc ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (2 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/11/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A02 dmi.board.name: 0GFTRT dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: 0.1 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd12/11/2013:svnDellInc.:pnXPS139333:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0GFTRT:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1: dmi.product.name: XPS13 9333 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz N/A version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.56-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.3.0-0ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.3.0-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.0-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu2 xserver.bootTime: Tue Oct 28 13:44:57 2014 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: product id 4933 vendor CMN xserver.version: 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1386721/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
