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Re: Firefox slow after DU
« Reply #15 on: 2016/07/26, 06:49:00 »
So your system is indeed using modesetting. If you want to check, if this is the culprint, you can make an


/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf which contains


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Section "Device"
Identifier "My GPU"
Driver "intel"
EndSection


Then restart X and look, if the issue is gone.
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Re: Firefox slow after DU
« Reply #16 on: 2016/07/26, 10:11:10 »
If towo's advise don't work for you, can you please use paste and paste the output of

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about:support
use the

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copy text to clipboard
and paste it all


my basics


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Application Basics
------------------

Name: Firefox
Version: 50.0a1
Build ID: 20160724030208
Update Channel: nightly
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
OS: Linux 4.6.4-towo.1-siduction-amd64
Multiprocess Windows: 0/1 (Disabled)
Safe Mode: false
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Re: Firefox slow after DU
« Reply #17 on: 2016/07/27, 17:45:15 »
towo's advise works for me - thx!

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Re: Firefox slow after DU
« Reply #18 on: 2016/07/27, 18:21:22 »
It seems to work for me too, but I can't test it very well now.  I will do it this weekend and mark it as solved if it is indeed.

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Re: Firefox slow after DU [Solved]
« Reply #19 on: 2016/07/28, 14:54:23 »
Indeed, problem solved!  Thanks towo and all for the great support!

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Re: Firefox slow after DU
« Reply #20 on: 2016/07/30, 13:40:20 »
So your system is indeed using modesetting. If you want to check, if this is the culprint, you can make an

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf which contains
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Section "Device"
   Identifier "My GPU"
   Driver "intel"
EndSection
The issue is gone. Thank you very much!

But could you please explain your solution?

I understand that there is a different "mode" in X. There is no need (for me) to understand that in details.
But what I want to understand is why this simple text-file here (de)activate that mode.

Does this modify a setting int he Debians own (new) intel driver. Or does this totaly switch to the old intels-own driver?

btw:
Firefox use Gecko, right?
There are similar problems with WebKit, too. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85064
« Last Edit: 2016/08/03, 08:24:43 by buhtz »

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Re: Firefox slow after DU [Solved]
« Reply #21 on: 2016/08/10, 17:11:32 »
I think that the intel driver wasn't being loaded (see the output of inxi in the original post) before.  The config file simply told the system to us the intel drive.

But I could be wrong...

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Re: Firefox slow after DU [Solved]
« Reply #22 on: 2016/08/11, 22:58:41 »
yes, it is right.

formerly there has been a separate driver package xserver-xorg-video-modesetting.
Some time ago this driver has been integrated into the xserver-xorg-core package.

Now the automatic detection was changed so modesetting is used for intel devices.
~$ zless /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-core/NEWS.Debian.gz
xorg-server (2:1.18.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  X now defaults to using built-in modesetting video driver on Intel
  hardware which is "4th gen GMA" and newer, so roughly speaking on hardware
  from 2007 and up. If this triggers new bugs on your hw, please file them
  against the xserver.

  Continuing to use the -intel driver is possible by dropping the template
  xorg.conf to /etc/X11:

  # cp /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-intel/xorg.conf /etc/X11

 -- Timo Aaltonen <tj...on@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:28:05 +0300


There is an explanation on Timo's blog.

The mentioned the template should be included in the xserver-xorg-video-intel package - I can't find it.

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« Last Edit: 2016/08/11, 23:13:14 by musca »
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Re: Firefox slow after DU [Solved]
« Reply #23 on: 2016/08/12, 10:01:31 »
... should be included in the xserver-xorg-video-intel package - I can't find it. ...
Seems to be a funny bug. Here too, reinstalling xserver-xorg-video-intel does not create that template xorg.conf. But regarding  https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/amd64/xserver-xorg-video-intel/filelist it is in the file list. So I downloaded the *.deb file and opened it with an archive manager, there is '...data.tar.xz\data.tar\.\usr\share\doc\xserver-xorg-video-intel\xorg.conf', but it does not get installed.
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Re: Firefox slow after DU [Solved]
« Reply #24 on: 2016/08/12, 11:03:35 »
Hello der_bud,

siduction/fixes includes a package which doesn't provide the file. (cleanup needed?)
The debian package is installable with:
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apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel=2:2.99.917+git20160706-1
The original content is:
musca@sidbox:~$ cat /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-intel/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
    Identifier "Intel"
    Driver "intel"
#    Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
EndSection

SNA (Sandybridge New Acceleration) is its default mode.
UXA (Universal Xcceleration Architecture) might be worth a try. Just uncomment the line.
Users can create this configuration file with:
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mkdir-p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d \
 && echo -e "\nSection \"Device\"\n    Identifier \"Intel\"\n    Driver \"intel\"\n#    Option \"AccelMethod\" \"uxa\"\nEndSection" >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

greetings
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« Last Edit: 2016/08/12, 15:15:10 by musca »
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Re: Firefox slow after DU [Solved]
« Reply #25 on: 2016/08/12, 15:00:42 »
Hello der_bud,

cleanup is neccessary, because in April intel had tagged the driver in git as version 2.99.918 but withdrawn to 917 later.

If you experience any problems with the intel driver we suggest to purge and install the intel driver,
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apt update && apt purge xserver-xorg-video-intel && apt install xserver-xorg-video-intel
or just downgrade to the current version, e.g. :
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apt install xserver-xorg-video-intel=2:2.99.917+git20160706-1
greetings
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