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4on6

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Registered: 2011-10-05

Posts: 172

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M - best graphics driver?

I run a cloned Archlinux x86-64 from a USB stick on a Samsung R730 labtop with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M, and could make X11 work after installing xf86-video-intel.

lspci -vk gives:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c06d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
	Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c06d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Memory at f8400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

X11 works (I use stumpwm), but it is far from being fast. Loading webpages is very slow, and mouse movement is a bit erratic at times.
Is that because running Arch from an USB flash drive (installed, not live) is simply slower, or do I have to install other drivers to get the normal performance?

Last edited by 4on6 (2012-04-19 23:23:44)

eastpeace

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Registered: 2012-02-07

Posts: 5

Re: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M - best graphics driver?

I have same problem on thinkpad x200. And I did not reslove this.

Maybe xf86-video-intel should be updated, I guess.

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