[cjtech]

Hey Team,

After installing XBMC I noticed the CPU was constantly maxed, after some googling I turned off the RSS feed and it quickly reduced the usage down to 1%, great! However whenever I'm browsing the menu's or sitting on a menu screen that has updating information the CPU quickly max's back to 100%.

Surley this isn't normal

[Hardware]
1 Intel Core i3 4130 LGA1150 CPU 3.4Ghz 3Mb Cache Haswell
1 Asus H87I-PLUS 2xDDR3 PCI-E 6xSATA3 6xUSB3.0 DVI D-SUB HDMI GLAN
1 SilverStone ST50F-ES 500W PSU 80+
1 G Skill 8G(2x4G) DDR3 1600Mhz PC12800(GS-F3-1600C9D-8GAO)
1 Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX/DTX Case USB3.0
1 Match Xtreme ES SLC 16G USB3.0 Flash Drive Read up to160MB/s Write up to160MB/
2 Western Digital RED WD30EFRX RED NAS- 3TB/INTELLIPOWER/DDR2/3.5


[Software]
Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-32-generic x86_64)
XBMC 12.2
-Video Settings
--GPU: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
--Screen resolution: [email protected] - Full screen
--OpenGL vendor: vmware, inc.
--OpenGL version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.3

[What I have tried]
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Dirty_regions

root@betsy:~# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i sna
[ 20.641] (**) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
[ 20.671] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Haswell (gen7.5, gt2) backend

UPDATE: Here is a log file - http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=74354

[cjtech]

It's defiantly the video drivers, as I installed OpenELEC to see if it had the same issue (and it doesn't), quite obvious really now I think about it.

What the settings should be.

-Video Settings
--GPU: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell
--OpenGL Vendor: intel open source technology center
--OpenGL Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1

Now I just need to replicate this to an actual ubuntu install.

[un1versal]

Theres many posts that show how to install correct drivers on intel, its been covered a bit to death both on forums and google.
But yes your right by default sometimes the wrong drivers get installed.

[cjtech]

I couldn't find much information out there to be honest, most of the guides use the graphic interface tool from intel... doesn't really help me.

If anyone has any documentation on correcting the intel integrated driver, would appreciate it.

Thanks

[un1versal]

http://www.techlw.com/2012/08/install-la...rs-in.html

[cjtech]

I've already followed those steps, and it didn't update any video settings after I restarted in XBMC.

[un1versal]

You have to remove current perhaps even blacklist it, and try agin properly and carefuly, idk Im not intel user thank me.

[cjtech]

Yes, think that's the right direction, i'll take a look.

Thanks mate

[teeedubb]

Have you tried the xswat or xorg-edgers ppa? They contain updated drivers

[cjtech]

I feel my issue is I've added a few in there, and I need to maybe remove all the unnecessary/old ones.

[cjtech]

Further information

root@betsy:~# lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 041e (rev 06)

root@betsy:~# find /dev -group video
/dev/fb0
/dev/dri/card0
/dev/dri/controlD64

root@betsy:~# glxinfo | grep -i vendor
Error: unable to open display