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Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)Posted Feb 14, 2007 6:29 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com) by drag Parent article: Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)
Just for a FYI..
I played around trying different things to get the best performance out of my 945g GMA 950 and these are the things that I've found out to help..
In my xorg.conf I did:
Not sure what mtrr is, but it did give me a decent performance boost. Also it lowered the cpu overhead of running glxgears by a large margin.
VideoRAM has it allocate a full 128megs of RAM. I think the GMA 950 can do up to 256 and the G965 can do up to 512.
LinearAlloc is to allocate enough ram to be able to use XV for HD-sized video.
Not sure if UseFBDev is nessicary though.
Then before running games or anything that I want to use 3d acceleration with I do:
I don't know exactly what that is suppose to do, but I think it disables ome RandR stuff.
Then 16bit graphics will help you get a bit more out of your limited memory bandwidth, but it makes things look ugly sometimes.
All these things together probably gave me a 75% - 100% boost in 3D performance, which makes it usable for games like Tremulous.
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FC6 or Ubuntu? Posted Feb 14, 2007 15:12 UTC (Wed) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] drag, are you using FC6 on this system, or Ubuntu?
FWIW, I just purchased a mid-level laptop and a low low end desktop, and I specifically went for the Intel graphics (950 GMA on both) and the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 on the laptop (which actually cost more than the standard OEM provided wireless) because of the open source driver support Intel provides. So yes, I put my money where my beliefs are!
So hey AMD(ATI)/Nvidia - here's a sale you LOST because of your poor support for open source drivers. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
I dropped off the Red Hat bandwagon a while ago and went to Debian, but I expect either FC6 or Ubuntu will work better on the laptop than stock Debian.
Thanks,
PS: Now if they'd only included a PATA port on the desktop - sigh... time to go hunt down a PCIe PATA card... any recommendations?
FC6 or Ubuntu? Posted Feb 14, 2007 21:45 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] I am using Debian unstable.
However I installed using the Debian Etch media, if I remember correctly.
I have a Asus motherboard with the Intel 945g chipset.. On it it has the 4 port SATA controller and then one PATA controller that comes with the chipset.. Then there is one add-on PATA controller from Asus and I am not sure about the manufacture of that.
(As far as these things go Asus is actually pretty Linux freindly. They are now my favorite name-brand)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
On mine in order to get the cdrom drive be recognized in Debian Etch I had to disable some bios setting just for that controller, but I don't remember off the top of my head what that was. Doesn't affect the speed of the drive any.
As for a PATA PCIe card? I don't know. Just get the cheapest, I suppose, that advertises Linux support.
Doing a quick look over what Newegg has I think it may be easier to just get a SATA dvdrom drive. I have a feeling that PCIe IDE controllers are going to be difficult to come by.
It would probably have a higher reliability also when it comes to burning dvds and such. There was a lite-on that was about 40 dollars or so. I don't know how well installing from one will go, but I don't expect it to be that hard.
I know that you already bought your motherboard and such.. But one thing to keep in mind for these 945g's and such is this (especially if you want to turn it into a server once you retire your desktop):
Most newer ones should support the Intel VT extensions. This will allow you to run unmodified guests at decent speeds using KVM or Xen. In order to use these extensions you need to have both a motherboard and a cpu that supports it. The cheapest CPUs that supports it is the Pentium-D 9xx series (the 8xx series doesn't support VT)
Then on the SATA controller you can get ones with AHCI support. Very recent linux versions have very good ACHI support for things like hotplugging, PM, and such. Most desktop boards aren't going to support it. (mine doesn't) You'd have to go with the 'execuative' line or the media boards. Anything advertising Intel's 'Matrix storage' probably supports it.
That stuff would be very nice if your running software RAID. A fast dual core cpu with 4 500gig drives in RAID 10 would be _very_ nice for a multimedia machine.
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