From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: bug#25953: [Mesa] Very low Gallium performance compared to Trisquel Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:15:21 +0100 Message-ID: <878tom6xc6.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <20170303175355.GC18261@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60309) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjrkM-0007L3-G6 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:16:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjrkI-00017H-DG for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:16:06 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40551) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjrkI-00017B-9l for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:16:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cjrkI-0005Vt-3g for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:16:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20170303175355.GC18261@jasmine> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Leo Famulari , Matthew Brooks Cc: 25953@debbugs.gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Leo Famulari writes: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 02:04:14AM -0600, Matthew Brooks wrote: >> This came up in a help-guix thread, and Ricardo Wurmus asked me to >> post here requesting that Mesa be built with LLVM to improve Gallium's >> performance. >>=20 >> The original post is here: >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-02/msg00141.html >> but in short, when running GuixSD on my system, Gnome is unusably >> slow, and while LXDE is usable, trying to play even 480p videos >> results in a slideshow rather than a video. >> On Trisquel though, even though it's also blobless and using Gallium, >> the performance is vastly better, and even HD videos play fine. >>=20 >> I'm not really familiar with stuff this deep into the system, so if >> there's any extra info you all need then just let me know and I'll be >> happy to provide it. > > I used to use GuixSD's GNOME on my Thinkpad x200s but, at some point, it > started to have the problem you describe. I decided to stop using GNOME > instead of investigating the bug because I had no idea where to start > looking. > > But if I can help change some packages and test the changes, please let > me know how. What are your hardware specs? For testing, you could try building "mesa" with "--enable-gallium-llvm" and maybe "--enable-llvm-shared-libs". It could be interesting to see how Trisquel builds mesa. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAli5srkACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPoh5ggA1MyPo9ck/9v/FJvFkuzNPhce2qpXfrVlH1XhO+//trPvFz4v2i9Xovjl IVzQux76gig8BuSl/8tf35QymjjhkxhUgTGdSmasyRw3a15egpsHi+xL7q98yd8u b+2WbVaoXiqIJRzDw4Pe6RjRkkzfT9KqMK1Z94jP0GKXazOgsKdA8H0Y9L5z8coN CFExSSAKqsSc5eQA8SjVINHxtkTEwMYpY/WzEQGoFhyoceIY3ygvVowY7jNRc4Uk 83PGMGhN/qv4GJxBcRrUIaTT8EjoceslXNcfZ2/yC5pxJwCUzYPVz8nP7tfd67fb +LEHZ3aqq6PK2wCNMgctKX1px9vcWg== =SRt3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--