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Question is, do those GtkPerf Numbers have any real relevance in the real world? What does that really measure - never found any clue to that. Who cares if a simple Window can be drawn 1000 or 4000...

Wow, really nice performance wins with SNA even with old GMA 945 chipset:
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1302276-FO-CAIROPERF23
(334 seconds down to 118 seconds)
FYI, Compositing on was Mesa...

Heureka, success!
Purging the x-swat ppa and only then activating ppa:glasen/intel-driver did the trick!
It comes with Mesa 9.0.3 and intel 2.21.3, X-swat had Mesa 9.0 and intel 2.19.
SNA is...

Ok thanks, I really hope those metapackages works better than the x-swat ppa (2.19 intel driver-> no sna and mesa 9) + intel driver ppa (2.20.x) -> ironically breaks because of nouveau (on Atom N270...

Anybody knows if Ubuntu 12.04 LTE will get new Intel Drivers in future (there where talk about new kernel versions for it), so one can test SNA?
Current driver does not support SNA, this is on old...

@bridgman (and other devs etc.)

In the slight hope that you are still reading this thread: don't forget that for every vocal hmm "crazy" here in the forum, there are several silent readers who...

@Kano
I don't really understand what you are "moaning" about. Currently the OpenGL drivers from Nvidia and especially AMD are not as optimized for Games as the DX11 drivers are, nothing new there....

Considering that you are only able to do software rendering, it is not that bad, actually.
Real-World applications will be more demanding though, so you will need a GPU that is capable of...

No, the rt2860 (PCI i think) in my Netbook is not stable at all, often i have to reboot my Ubuntu 10.10, just to get wlan to work again after suspend. And still only 802.11g instead of 802.11n...
I...

I think it's rather your sentence (used in such a broad way) that makes no sense.

And btw, especially Ext4 has a "no journal mode", no need to go back to the old Ext2.

Ok, but then, maybe after this long time of waiting (and perhaps a last wake-up mail), those "few minutes" of work (even when reinventing the wheel) could be well worth it?

While I'm at it: Pleease add cairo-perf-trace benchs to Iveland!

I know you said since over a year that you were waiting for some recorded traces from Intel? (WTF?)
But you DO know that there is...

Great! I was hoping so... but I had to post the example, preventing blaming myself later - if you would miss the opportunity to do nice dynamic graphs ;)

BTW, for inspiration, here are some dynamic (SVG+JS) benchmark graphs that a german site uses since 3 years or so (+ png Fallback):
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Feature Request: 2D Benchmarks that are not useless!

Maybe I'm just having a bad day, but we are all used to Benchmark-Reviews on Phoronix by now, that more or less just state "faster in test X"...

Not really, I would rather say Phoronix Test Suite FAIL.
But it's not really Breaking News. Since long ago Devs complain that PTS is doing the wrong (irrelevant) 2D Benchmarks.
Never thought it...

Err? Direct2D is only available under Vista SP2 and Windows7 and there is no foss driver for those. Under Windows AMD drivers have/had? only problems with GDI accel. not with Direct2D accel.

Could perhaps be handy for things like WebGL on Netbooks (without Ion, Poulsbo etc.)?

Err, then read that article again:
BTW, the Nvidia driver on Mac OS X offers OpenGL 2.1 (and appartently a bit of 3.0?), the Nvidia driver for Linux offers OpenGL 3.2 (as does the ATI driver), by...

Is there still no cairo-perf-trace test profile in Phoronix Test Suite 2.4? Wasn't that announced for 2.2?

And if there is - why not drop those GtkPerf tests that Michael himself says "do not...