3D acceleration on Intel 915 gfx chip (Sony Vaio)
Andrea Mastellone
andrea.mastellone at fastwebnet.it
Mon Dec 18 16:29:05 UTC 2006
Neil Bird wrote:
>
> I'm struggling to find out whether the default (i810) xorg driver
> should be capable of doing decent 3D with my Centrino-based 915 driver
> (on a Sony Vaio).
>
> The last Intel-shipped driver code is dated 2004, and doesn't compile;
> all the pointers indicate that the laest xorg drivers are the best, but
> glxgears and beryl are right CPU hogs.
>
> Anyone any ideas? Am I missing a bit of xorg.conf magic?
>
This is strange, I am currently runngin beryl smoothly in a 915
integrated graphic card, in FC6 with xorg 7.1 and no drivers by Intel
(that are the same as provided in xorg, I guess).
What is your glxinfo output ? Have you the i915 module loaded ?
Andrea
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