Re: [stable] OpenGL problem:bay trail

[dE <de.techno@gmail.com>]

On 11/20/14 22:00, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 09:48:18PM +0530, dE wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've a bay trail processor with HD graphics.
> >
> > I've enabled hardware Firefox hardware acceleration (downloaded from
> > Mozilla) but it's extremely slow; not at par to this graphics chip.
> >
> > Even the GTK UI and scrolling is slow at 1024x768 resolution.
> >
> > I thought this was an upstream problem, but it works fine with
> > Fedora 20 which uses 3.15 kernel.
> >
> > I'm using backproted 3.16 kernel.
> >
> > Any suggestions/hints?
> Bay Trail graphics aren't well-supported without a very recent
> X server: see
> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2014/2014q2-intel-graphics-stack-release
>
> Even the one in wheezy-backports:
> xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.15-2~bpo70+1
>
> is probably not going to be particularly fast. But it's your
> best hope.
>
> -dsr-

No, it doesn't work well. I can confirm.

I'll request a backport for whatever stable packages are available.