Does anybody use Linux on a laptop with integrated Intel X3100 (or other Intel) graphics chips?
If so, what sort of performance do you get (fps) from the Linux client, ideally as compared to some other video cards?
I know that fps can vary widely based on where you are, how many textures are about, how many sculpties are about, how many avatars are about, etc. What I'm trying to do is get a sense as to how well this graphics card performs as compared to, say, a Radeon 9200 graphics card with the open source drivers.
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Prospero Frobozz
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09-30-2007 16:46
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Phoenix Psaltery
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09-30-2007 17:43
You'd be lucky to even get SL to run on an Intel graphics chipset, let alone have decent performance.
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Drake Bacon
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09-30-2007 19:30
*pokes P2* Coming over to the penguin side, eh?
But to the topic at hand. Try it out with Intel's latest drivers: http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html and let us know how it turns out. Hell, let Intel know too. Zi Ree has gotten it working on an Intel graphics card in a laptop, and since Intel's getting back into 3D development (maybe with help from Havok) we may have another contender to battle ATI/AMD and NVidia. EDIT: For a point comparison on how slow you could get, at 1024x768 resolution, the Mac Mini I have (see signature) gets on average 8 fps, and maxes at 10 fps. _____________________
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Prospero Frobozz
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09-30-2007 21:22
Linux, anyone?
I IM'ed the "Linux Client Users" group, and was hearing reports of 5fps or thereabouts on a 945. Apparently, under Windows it does better than it does under Linux, because the Linux drivers are much less optimized. Anybody know anything about this? And, surely, there must be somebody with actual *experience* trying to get SL to run on an Intel video chipset under Linux?? _____________________
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Morgaine Dinova
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10-16-2007 04:03
... hearing reports of 5fps or thereabouts on a 945. And, surely, there must be somebody with actual *experience* trying to get SL to run on an Intel video chipset under Linux?? The X3000/X3100 is part of the 965 chipset, which is a completely different beast from 945. X3000/X3100 has a highly parallel graphics architecture compared to Intel's previous offerings, with hardware T&L, 128 programmable shaders, and other modern goodies. While the new hardware shows promise, unfortunately looking at various benchmark sites suggests that none of this promise is being fulfilled in practice, apparently because Intel's supplied drivers don't even use the new hardware facilities. This seems to be the case on both Linux and Windows. It seems that the software division is letting the side down at Intel. Morg. _____________________
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