Low fps on Asus Eee PC 900

Rinaldus · 2009-08-28 23:40:40

I bought my laptop Asus Eee PC 900 in May 2009 and installed my favorite Arch on it. Everything was perfect. But several weeks later after regular system updating I noticed that FPS of such games as Supertux, Tux Racer, Extreme Tux Racer (OpenGL games) decreased to 5-10. It was impossible to play. I found many information in Google and in this site, that new version of Xorg became incompatible with Intel drivers and 3D is not supported now. To test it, I installed Debian Lenny (2008 year) and everything with graphic was ok, all games works perfectly. But I don't like Debian with its old soft, I like Arch! Please, if you know way to enable 3D acceleration, tell me how to do it! I spent whole evening trying to find in Google any information about it.
Here's my full glxinfo: http://pastebin.ca/1546429
My Xorg.conf: http://pastebin.ca/1546434
Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.ca/1546436

I tried to install several versions of xf86-video-intel. Some versions work better, some worse but it's impossible to play games with all of them.

djszapi · 2009-08-29 05:38:54

"To test it, I installed Debian Lenny (2008 year) a" Which kernel/X/driver version is on it ? Did you tried with that versions too ?

markatto · 2009-08-29 07:09:04

Unfortunately, some of the Intel drivers are pretty fail right now. In fact, the majority of video card drivers still suck for 3d- the only truly good video drivers are the Nvidia ones, and they don't implement parts of xrandr correctly and are closed source, so they fail too.

/rant

unfortunately, I have to say that your best solution may be to use a distro with scheduled releases; It is possible to have pacman put a hold on the xorg package and use an old one, but in the long run that will probably end up in a mess of dependencies as things roll forward.

Rinaldus · 2009-08-29 12:17:10

Is Intel going to fix this situation? Or they don't care about Linux drivers? Should I use only old versions of Linux distributions (such as Debian Lenny) with Xorg version < 1.6 or I have chance to have good results in last versions of Fedora/Mandriva/Ubuntu and other popular distributions?

Last edited by Rinaldus (2009-08-29 12:27:23)

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#1 2009-08-28 23:40:40

Low fps on Asus Eee PC 900

#2 2009-08-29 05:38:54

Re: Low fps on Asus Eee PC 900

#3 2009-08-29 07:09:04

Re: Low fps on Asus Eee PC 900

#4 2009-08-29 12:17:10

Re: Low fps on Asus Eee PC 900

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