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From: Mike Kazantsev <mike_kazantsev@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:00:17
Message-Id: 20090402205659.1f6cbfdc@coercion
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance by "Pongrácz István"
1 On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:52:25 +0200
2 Pongrácz István <pongracz.istvan@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 >
5 > Hello Everybody,
6 >
7 > I have a laptop with Intel 945GM videochip. I use ~x86 and I expected a very
8 > bad opengl performance afte I switched to intel driver from 2.5.x to 2.6.
9 >
10 > The compiz and playing video were very slow, independently of the CPU usage.
11 >
12 > So, after all I downgraded the xf86-video-intel to the latest 2.5.x version
13 > and I got a good performance again.
14 >
15 > If one has this kind of issue, try to downgrade to 2.5.x.
16 >
17 > Regards,
18 >
19 > István
20
21 Did you try to use it with GEM in .28/.29 kernels?
22 I believe GEM technology of the latest kernels should be the focus of
23 latest releases.
24
25 Works pretty good (for IGP) here on both:
26
27 root@coercion:~# glxinfo | g renderer
28 OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM GEM 20090114 x86/MMX/SSE2
29
30 root@coercion:~# glxgears
31 3746 frames in 5.0 seconds = 749.005 FPS
32 3733 frames in 5.0 seconds = 746.519 FPS
33 3758 frames in 5.0 seconds = 751.474 FPS
34
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36 Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance "Pongrácz István" <pongracz.istvan@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance "Pongrácz István" <pongracz.istvan@×××××.com>