[Mageia-dev] Fwd: fallback mode

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 05/11/12 23:01 did gyre and gimble:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 11:39:41PM +0100, Olivier Blin wrote:
>> Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:27:26PM +0100, Olivier Blin wrote:
>>>> Even an Intel Core2 Duo (E8400) from 2008 + Intel Q35 chipset from 2007
>>>> can not handle the load with Gnome Shell on a 1920x1080 display, using
>>>> accelerated GL drivers.
>>>
>>> Sure it is not using llvmpipe accidentally? What kind of driver does
>>> that Q35 use? I have an intel chipset in my old laptop, no clue what,
>>> but it is really smooth.
>>
>> Q35 has an Intel GMA3100 chipset, it is using i915.
>> I don't think it is using llvmpipe, since
>> /usr/lib64/gnome-session-check-accelerated-helper succeeds.
>> Is there a better way to check that?
> 
> System Settings → Details.
> 
>> Which Intel chipset is your old laptop using? 
> 
> Intel® 965GM. I guess that is newer than your laptop. My laptop has a
> BIOS from 2007, I guess it was made around that time. GNOME shell seems
> really smooth, same as my main machine though resolution is just
> 1280×1024.

My ~4year old primary machine with i945 (so somewhere in between) is
also pretty smooth overall (could be smoother but it is 4 years old!)

Col


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