'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 05/11/12 23:01 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 11:39:41PM +0100, Olivier Blin wrote: >> Olav Vitters <o...@vitters.nl> writes: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:27:26PM +0100, Olivier Blin wrote: >>>> Even an Intel Core2 Duo (E8400) from 2008 + Intel Q35 chipset from 2007 >>>> can not handle the load with Gnome Shell on a 1920x1080 display, using >>>> accelerated GL drivers. >>> >>> Sure it is not using llvmpipe accidentally? What kind of driver does >>> that Q35 use? I have an intel chipset in my old laptop, no clue what, >>> but it is really smooth. >> >> Q35 has an Intel GMA3100 chipset, it is using i915. >> I don't think it is using llvmpipe, since >> /usr/lib64/gnome-session-check-accelerated-helper succeeds. >> Is there a better way to check that? > > System Settings → Details. > >> Which Intel chipset is your old laptop using? > > Intel® 965GM. I guess that is newer than your laptop. My laptop has a > BIOS from 2007, I guess it was made around that time. GNOME shell seems > really smooth, same as my main machine though resolution is just > 1280×1024.
My ~4year old primary machine with i945 (so somewhere in between) is also pretty smooth overall (could be smoother but it is 4 years old!) Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/