On Sat 03 Mar 2012 22:02:25 NZDT +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:

> If you get recent enough copies of mesa, the new versions of mesa (8.x
> series ) have an LLVM compilation phase to make a lot of the things a
> lot lot faster and it offloads the software stuff that it has to do on
> the CPU much better.
> 
> i915 + intel i5 runs glxgears nicely at ~900fps and thats *with*
> xcompmgr running.

Wow, now I'm impressed! Had to add another repo for mesa 8.0.1, and
instant 1100-1400fps. Didn't even have to re-log in. Very noisy
operation though - cpu fan doing overtime...

Don't have xcompmgr, I assume KDE does something equivalent.

Thanks muchly for the tip, and for the lappie/intel/nvidia warning!

Volker

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