<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Shanon Loughton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:autobot@iinet.net.au" target="_blank">autobot@iinet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
That would be because of Intel's open source graphics efforts for their Intel Mesa Gallium-based Driver. The effort is awesome, world leading and really shaking things up in Nvidia camps. No idea where AMD is...</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Apart from the initial hiccup when Ubuntu first introduced the Intel's OSS driver, Intel Graphics have always resided in the "Just Works" camp. I'm running dual screen, 1920x1200/normal orientaion and 1600x1200/vertical orientation. Full compiz and runs pretty well considering:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>leon@bofh-sider:~$ glxgears</div><div>Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be</div><div>approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.</div><div>4812 frames in 5.0 seconds = 962.274 FPS</div>
<div>4220 frames in 5.0 seconds = 843.976 FPS</div><div>3611 frames in 5.0 seconds = 720.145 FPS</div><div>3633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 726.583 FPS</div><div>3846 frames in 5.0 seconds = 769.060 FPS</div><div>3609 frames in 5.0 seconds = 721.724 FPS</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Can't remember exactly what it has in it, lenovo T410:<br><br><div>00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])</div>
<div> Subsystem: Lenovo Device 215a</div><div> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+</div><div> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-</div>
<div> Latency: 0</div><div> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42</div><div> Region 0: Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]</div><div> Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]</div>
<div> Region 4: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]</div><div> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]</div><div> Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-</div><div> Address: fee0300c Data: 4179</div>
<div> Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2</div><div> Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)</div><div> Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-</div>
<div> Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features</div><div> AFCap: TP+ FLR+</div><div> AFCtrl: FLR-</div><div> AFStatus: TP-</div><div> Kernel driver in use: i915</div>
<div> Kernel modules: i915</div></div><div><br></div><div>Leon</div></div>