Intel 965GM chipset with compiz

[Asgeir Frimannsson]

On Monday 11 August 2008 16:35:48 Craig Preston wrote:
> I am using F9 with the intel chipset. With desktop effects turned on, the
> cube and wobble windows and all that stuff works fine. Video and multimedia
> all seemed to be fine as well, but scrolling in Firefox was terrible. Turn
> it off and scrolling is back to normal.
>
> I have left it off for the time being until i find a solution (not that
> i've really looked)

Turning off smooth scrolling in Firefox might help (about:config and search for 
smooth), but then again, you won't get 'smooth scrolling' :)

cheers,
asgeir

> 2008/8/11 John Priddy <jpriddy at redhat.com>
>
> > Hmm, yeah sounds like you have things working fine.  I'll go back and
> > revisit my xorg conf / reread the wiki.  Thanks, its actually quite
> > helpful to know at least someone out there has this working on the same
> > chipset.  Last time I took a look at this it was the same week FC9 came
> > out, so perhaps there have been some developments since then.
> >
> > --John
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 11:29 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > > On Saturday 09 August 2008 05:12, John Priddy wrote:
> > > > Is anyone out there using this chipset on FC9 with acceptable video
> > > > performance?
> > >
> > > Depending on what "acceptable" means. Works for me.
> > >
> > > > My performance issues are especially noticeable when
> > > > 'scrolling' (for lack of a better word).  It is awful running
> > > > mozilla, but its pretty poor using nautilus as well as others.
> > >
> > > I guess that scrolling is up to the user-app, and can be implemented
> >
> > poorly. I
> >
> > > also remember that mozilla/firefox was pretty slow in that, while some
> >
> > other
> >
> > > apps (kdvi, kghostview etc.) were smooth.
> > >
> > > > glxgears framerate is in the single digits.
> > >
> > > $ glxgears
> > > 3402 frames in 5.0 seconds = 680.271 FPS
> > > 3626 frames in 5.0 seconds = 725.081 FPS
> > > 3615 frames in 5.0 seconds = 722.802 FPS
> > > 3593 frames in 5.0 seconds = 718.598 FPS
> > > 3620 frames in 5.0 seconds = 723.859 FPS
> > > 3597 frames in 5.0 seconds = 719.374 FPS
> > >
> > > This is with compiz-fusion turned on. It seems slow, but is not
> >
> > single-digit
> >
> > > slow. :-) I suspect this is regular intel performance?
> > >
> > > > Below is output from glxinfo:
> > > > name of display: :0.0
> > > > display: :0  screen: 0
> > > > direct rendering: Yes
> > > > server glx vendor string: SGI
> > > > server glx version string: 1.2
> > >
> > > Same here. I am not an expert here, but have this chipset, so I can
> >
> > suggest
> >
> > > you to go to the compiz-fusion home page, and in their wiki you can
> > > find pretty exact instructions on how to prepare xorg.conf for intel
> > > chipset
> >
> > with
> >
> > > AIGLX. This is what I did, and it works reasonably well (for me).
> > >
> > > HTH, :-)
> > > Marko
> >
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