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zaboleqqq

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Registered: 2011-12-21

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Intel 82845G - Low performance and redraw/refresh, moving windows, etc

Hello Everyone,

My graphics is Intel 82845G Chipset and Im using Fluxbox now. I orginnaly used intel driver but it was really sux so i changed it to vesa driver and now everything work better then on Intel driver - but still is so low performance (redraw/screen refresh and moving windows)for this graphics/CPU (Celeron D 2,56 Ghz and Inetl 82845G with 1Gb DDR).

# lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)

GLXInfo:
glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB,
    GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent,
    GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_OML_swap_method,
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

And this is my Xorg.0.log (its long)
http://wklej.org/id/652204/

Could you help em guys? Do You need any other information? Om not happy by this low performance/screen refresh...

Last edited by zaboleqqq (2011-12-21 15:06:56)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Intel 82845G - Low performance and redraw/refresh, moving windows, etc

Have you tried https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 04#p938004

zaboleqqq

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Registered: 2011-12-21

Posts: 11

Re: Intel 82845G - Low performance and redraw/refresh, moving windows, etc

But my Xorg is not crashing or freezing - its just have very poor performance. I think this is not that kind of problem. Any ideas? Just remember that my Xorg is fully stable .

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: Intel 82845G - Low performance and redraw/refresh, moving windows, etc

Err, you're very confusing here. You said the intel driver "sux" and that the vesa driver is better, but it has slow performance. What does it mean that the intel driver "sux" and how can the vesa driver be better if it's so slow?

zaboleqqq

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Registered: 2011-12-21

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Re: Intel 82845G - Low performance and redraw/refresh, moving windows, etc

IMO vesa work better - dont know why exactly but moving windows and minimalize/maximize Firefox for example is faster and smoother (not like I have 10 FPS). I try with intel driver and meyby again and  make 'Option - "Shadow" "True"'. But as I wrote - I dont get any crash or freezes. It just so "slow" on intel driver, I dont have smooth movement when I try to move console window oraz firefox windows for example.

zaboleqqq

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Registered: 2011-12-21

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Re: Intel 82845G - Low performance and redraw/refresh, moving windows, etc

Sorry for double post  guys

I found that I dont have file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf or this file is empty - but why? My xorg.conf is empty too.

karol

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Re: Intel 82845G - Low performance and redraw/refresh, moving windows, etc

There's no xorg.conf by default as it's not needed anymore. It's preferable to setup things in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf files which you can create yourself.

karol

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Re: Intel 82845G - Low performance and redraw/refresh, moving windows, etc

Status?