[Ilugc] OpenGL Support for Intel GMA
- From: senthils@xxxxxxxxxx (Senthil Anand)
- Date: Fri Sep 18 19:04:36 2009
Bharathi Subramanian wrote:
On 12:22pm, Varrun Ramani wrote:
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
I use TP R61. OpenGL support is not good in this Intel Card. I am not
sure, is it related to the driver or device. Try to play with DRI
settings using driconf tool. Try the driver provided by the Intel[1].
I never tried this :)
1. http://intellinuxgraphics.org/
Bye :)
In theory the Intel Graphics Media Deaccelerators have a good unified
architecture and 3D performance. In practice Intel concentrates mainly
on media playback rather than 3D gaming. This is true even in under
Windows where the Intel drivers are much faster.
All games using the GPLed Quake 3 engine will run well, mainly because
they use the engine for 3d performance testing. Other engines may or may
not work.
In the OPs case he also has to contend with wine which has its own set
of problems.
The drivers in the mentioned site are just the ones you get in your
distribution through X.org. It might probably be somewhat newer that
what you get with your distribution.
Also Ubuntu Jaunty had a few regressions in performance of Linux drivers
due to the rewriting of a large part of the X.org graphics stack. If you
want to use a newer version, you will need to update all packages in the
graphics stack found in the site. Since it includes a patched kernel and
X.org libraries, don't try it unless you are well familiar with Linux.
The new stack will appear in next version of all the distros and you can
try it then.
Regards,
Senthil
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