F34 system very, very slow after upgrade from F33

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Upgraded from F33, which was a clean install, to F34. After upgrade the system runs very slowly with the mouse taking a long time to respond to movements making it difficult to work with. Applications, once started, run at their usual speed without problems.

Booting with “nomodeset” the system runs normally, but with distorted screen. Data from lspci shows a different IRQ and, in normal boot, an added line - “Kernel driver in use: i915”. I am assuming this is a driver problem but if anybody can help I can provide more information.

After normal boot -

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer Device 3106
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fde80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fdb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer Device 3106
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities:

After “nomodeset” boot -

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer Device 3106
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at fde80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fdb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer Device 3106
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities:

[ Additionally, and it may be a different problem and not relevant, FreeCAD won’t open drawings when booted normally but will when booted with “nomodeset”. ]

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Please give us an overview of your system with (command in terminal) :

inxi -Fzx

Please check also if you have enough free memory (Harddisk). After an incomplete update it is possible that your Hard-drive got less space.

Do not forget to paste text from terminal as Preformated text </> It is much better readable and makes text-blocks where are scroll-able.

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The system details as per inxi -

~ $ inxi -Fzx
System:    Kernel: 5.12.13-300.fc34.x86_64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 2.35.1-41.fc34 Desktop: GNOME 40.2 
           Distro: Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: Shuttle model: FG33 v: V10 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 6.00 PG date: 04/25/2008 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21354 
           Speed: 2002 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2002 2: 2669 3: 2669 4: 2002 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics vendor: Holco Enterprise Co /Shuttle driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: wayland server: X.Org 1.21.1.1 compositor: gnome-shell driver: loaded: intel,vesa 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.1.3 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Holco Enterprise Co /Shuttle driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.13-300.fc34.x86_64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2-rebootstrapped running: no 
           Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.31 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Holco Enterprise Co /Shuttle driver: sky2 v: 1.30 
           port: be00 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
           IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI vendor: Edimax driver: rt61pci v: 2.3.0 port: be00 bus-ID: 03:09.0 
           IF: wlp3s9 state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 76.98 GiB (8.3%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD1001FALS-00E8B0 size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 930.51 GiB used: 76.72 GiB (8.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-2: /boot size: 975.9 MiB used: 265.7 MiB (27.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-3: /home size: 930.51 GiB used: 76.72 GiB (8.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 3.82 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 246 Uptime: 3m Memory: 3.82 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (33.3%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.1.1 
           Packages: 2511 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 inxi: 3.3.03 
~ $

Upgrade to F34 appeared to go cleanly. Machine is over specified for what I use it for so memory and hard-disk shouldn’t be a problem - the F33 installation used all defaults - but the PC is eleven years old. Problem appears to be only when doing things on desktop, not in applications.

Is there any other information I can give that might be helpful?

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That system only has 4 GB memory and some of it is used for graphics. I think the only thing I would suggest would be to add additional memory if you can.

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Bug report submitted - number 1981765