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orphaned hardwareorphaned hardwarePosted Aug 7, 2009 15:21 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)In reply to: orphaned hardware by me@jasonclinton.com Parent article: Mutter: a window manager for GNOME 3
I hope that the drivers for my laptop get better by the time I'm forced to start using this new window manager.
18 months ago, I bought a laptop with an Intel GM965 video card. This is supposed to be one of the amazing Intel graphics cards that "just works". It has not lived up to this expectation. Currently I can run stellarium, but celestia and anything based on clutter runs at a pitiful 1 frame per 3-4 seconds, when they are lucky to run at all, rather than causing X to segfault.
Now that Intel's newer graphics cards have gone all proprietary, I doubt this situation will ever improve.
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orphaned hardware Posted Aug 7, 2009 18:36 UTC (Fri) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701) [Link]
First, no one will force you to do anything.
Second, something about your driver situation is horribly, horribly wrong. You need to fix it; the 965 has stellar support and performance is two orders of magnitude better than what you are getting.
Third, a netboot graphics chip, so far, shipped in two netbooks is not the future of Intel graphics. Larabee is. Google it.
Last, just speculation but by the way in which the TTM/GEM has been developed, I suspect that we'll see OpenCL (yes, CL, not GL) available in some officially supported fashion on Linux on Larabee in the form of a 100% open-source driver before the end of 2010.
orphaned hardware Posted Aug 10, 2009 12:41 UTC (Mon) by kingdon (subscriber, #4526) [Link]
If you want to google it, spelling it "Larrabee" should work better.
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