Fwd: Nvidia to Intel
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Frank McCormick
<fmccormick@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> I just went back to the straight Intel video driver for the
> on-board video on my Sid installation. I was running an older Nvidia
> card but got tired of trying to keep the driver up to the kernel.
>
> What I didn't realize was how slow the Intel video is - in Firefox for
> example I can almost see the top half of the page painted!
>
> I am running an Intel D865GBF board from a few years ago, with a 2.6
> GHZ dual core and a gig of memory.
>
> I have run dpkg-reconfigure on xserver-xorg but it didn't ak any
> questions about video. Seems that what it does now.
They have been changing the way debconf works for xorg, now
that xorg is increasingly capable of running with a more minimal
xorg.conf (or none at all).
>
> Am I missing something or do I have to go back to Nvidia to get some
> decent video speed?
Have you tried both EXA and XAA? Also check lsmod to see if the drm
and i915 kernel modules are being used, and see if there are any
errors or warnings in the xorg log.
As far as annoying video cards go, I wanted some 3D, but couldn't
stand the "nvidia" driver, much less "fglrx", so I got a 9250 (~$45)
which has full 2d and 3d with the open "radeon" driver. It plays
Quake III, so I'm happy. I'll probably upgrade to a recent Radeon
once the "RadeonHD" driver is ready.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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