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>> Hello, |
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>> I'm looking at a Dell Vostro 1720 Laptop with this Intel video |
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>> chip: Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD |
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>> Anyone with any experience or comments as to Intel's video |
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>> offerings, as far as it related to (X)/Gentoo on the laptop |
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>> are most welcome. |
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> The software support for Intel graphics itself is pretty good. They |
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> have in-tree DRI drivers and X drivers and support for GEM and XRANDR |
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> 1.3. IIRC Keith Packard works both on X11 development and the Intel |
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> drivers so you get a lot of support software-wise. |
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> As some have reported Intel Graphics cards don't perform as well as |
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> other competitors in 3D graphics. It's fine though for people like me |
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> who aren't gamers and need powerful graphics hardware. I use |
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> GNOME/Compiz and things work pretty exceptional (except for the Blur |
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> plugin in Compiz; there's no hardware rendering support; you'll want to |
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> disable that). |
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My experience matches this. If I try to run composite rendering, X |
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eats my CPU time to the point that I can't even use the system for |
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practical purposes. |
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I have a 945GM Intel video card. |
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I had tried compiz-fusion through kde3 last year, but the performance |
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was much to jittery and slow, so I removed it. I tried to upgrade to |
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kde4 this week, but again X was eating CPU time and making the whole |
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machine run hot and slow. I can't be 100% sure it was the video card |
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and composite rendering, but I believe it was the problem. So I |
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switched to xfce and now I'm happy. |
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So, if you want to run 3D graphics and composite rendering, maybe not intel? |
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~daid |
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