Re: how to get 3D acceleration with an intel i7?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 03/31/2011 10:08 AM, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:49:14PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> > And provided you seem to be using a recent -and customized?- kernel
> > (Linux yoda 2.6.37-2-amd64) and also an updated Xorg server (1.9.5)
> > upgrading any of those components does not make much sense, right?
> yes the standard kernel coming with unstable....
>
> > > http://pastebin.com/1u6aK0aJ
> > What is the exact behaviour you are experiencing? Do you feel the desktop
> > is sluggish or a concrete application is not running smooth? Did you
> > enable desktop effects? BTW, what desktop are you using?
> >
> > The more data you provide, the better for other people can tell you some
> > hints :-)
> :D
> sur enough, ok i am running enlightement .16 as desktopmanager, without
> too much options enabled (no effects etc)  and for normal work, e.g.
> launching and moving xterms, editing documents wth libreoffice etc
> there's no lag, as soon as i start some heavy duty graphic apps there's
> lag and often some out of synchro lines that appear.
>
> doesn't happen BTW with glxgears, but tested also with a widely
> available game: extreme tuxracer

So, tuxracer (heavy OpenGL usage) performs adequately?

> and then there's proprietary software i need running under wine which
> doesn't use opengl but the "'$%'«» M$ system.... and those won't
> work.....

That's a Wine problem...

> tried also some heavy graphics games like regnum online, same problem,
> they complain of lack of drivers....

Error messages would be useful...

> i suppose now it has something to do with some lacking in the
> translation between windows graphics and opengl :(


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