* glxgears gives about 200fps in it's small window.
* google earth is torturous
* bzflag a bit ... urkish

can we fix it?

Incidentially s/Ctrl-Alt-Backspace|dontzap|xorg.conf edit/Alt-SysRq-[whatever]/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysrq.txt

Changing display resolution doesn't help.
In fact lower resolutions seem very glitchy/bad!
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
## => hang :(

$ glxinfo  |grep rend
get fences failed: -1
param: 6, val: 0
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM GEM 20090326 2009Q1 RC2 x86/MMX/SSE2

hmmmm ...

my /etc/X11/xorg.conf is very basic
tried lots of various settings ...
http://codeidol.com/unix/ubuntu/X11/Enable-3-D-Video-Acceleration/
http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2008/03/ubuntu-hardy-intel-945-graphics-driver.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/intel-945gm-and-3d-acceleration-625937/

package "xserver-xorg-video-intel"

This package provides the driver for the Intel i8xx and i9xx family
of chipsets, including i810, i815, i830, i845, i855, i865, i915, i945
and i965 series chips.

This package also provides an XvMC (XVideo Motion Compensation) driver
for i810 and i815 chipsets.

More information about X.Org can be found at:
<url:http://www.x.org>
<url:http://xorg.freedesktop.org>
<url:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg>

This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-intel driver module.

Canonical provides critical updates for xserver-xorg-video-intel until October 2010.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=24481
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzM3OQ
via http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/laptop/418072-video-performance-intel-945gm-kernel-2-6-30-a.html
Intel Releases xf86-video-intel 2.8 RC Driver
Posted by Michael Larabel on July 13, 2009

Hmmm. Very recent.


http://blog.programmerslog.com/?m=200906
http://blog.programmerslog.com/?p=378
How to install the latest Intel drivers on Ubuntu
June 20th, 2009


So anyway I updated my drivers and xorg.conf settings.
But not kernel,
And ... AIE! and AUGH.
I get the ubuntu session login screen okay.
But when gnome logs in I just see the colour on whole screen and mouse pointer. Moving and clicking mouse I can see there's some action going on! Desktop is functional but cannot see anything. Switching away and back gives black screen.

restarting/reconfiguring xorg.conf in various ways doesn't recover.
verious errors starting X, see /var/log/Xorg.* MTRR error, others.

After wailing and gnashing of the teeth the solution was found to kill compiz and any other compiz process.
And System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects->None

hmmm, no we can't fix it!

but at least we recovered from the big mess we made right!

Tags: 945gm, compiz, drivers, graphics, hardware acceleration, intel, linux, problem, ubuntu

Use Projity openproj. http://openproj.org/
"OpenProj is a free, open source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project."
Very good, it read the .mpp I was interested in no bother.
Other linux project planning tools don't work much with .mpps.
Colleagues have used it to edit .mpps and exchange them with Windows people.

Downloads here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/files/
The rpm worked well for me on Fedora 10.
The .deb (openproj_1.4-2.deb) installed and runs but menus/gui were invisible for me on ubuntu jaunty.
I have some java dev packages installed so my java environment is not a bog-standard one.
google problem trap: help problem openproj cannot see interface b0rked doesn't work horrendous argh help!

Projity was acquired recently by Serena Software.
Common Public Attribution Licensed.
Implemented in Java.
Seems to be a relationship with Sun and distros so hopefully coming as the project planning part of StarOffice and OpenOffice sometime. No I'm not affiliated in any way and still don't even like java though somewhat grudgingly have to admit it's somewhat useful.


vi `which openproj`
# Set it to log to file and control what version of java it chooses.
# The command-line it chose was this:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java -Xms128m -Xmx768m -jar /usr/share/openproj/openproj.jar --silentlyFail true
# This command-line worked for me (just use my default java which is 1.6):
java -Xms128m -Xmx768m -jar /usr/share/openproj/openproj.jar

I have these jvms:

java version "1.6.0_0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.4.1) (6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 14.0-b08, mixed mode)

java version "1.5.0_18"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_18-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.5.0_18-b02, mixed mode)