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I have an Intel 4500MHD card in my laptop and it's just painfully slow, my previous laptop had an X3100 that worked great and i thought this would be an upgrade, how very wrong of me to believe that. Glxgears shows some 100 FPS and glxinfo says i have direct rendering support. I'm using core, community and extra repositories with an xorg.conf generated by X -configure without any additional options to the device section besides the default ones.
Yesterday i tried to run open arena and the game just exits when i try to initiate a game from the main menu.
Anyone had luck in getting this card to work a little more efficiently while not recompiling half of their system?
Last edited by goll (2009-02-04 15:42:49)
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Here is a wiki that includes your graphics card:
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Unfortunately no.
Put simply, there are a few major intel-related changes going on right now, and the short story is that the intel drivers are using newer tech than Mesa and such are. However, the required packages haven't been brought up to date yet (I think they haven't been marked stable upstream and such).
The first step however is kernel 2.6.28, which includes half of the "fix", to simplify. Now, this won't make your FPS go straight back up - you'll need to wait for newer versions of Mesa and such to be rolled out - but it's a start, especially if you don't already have 2.6.28.
From there, I'm sure you've seen this thread which outlines what to recompile. I'll probably wait though, since 100FPS is quite an upgrade for me - I didn't have hardware rendering until a month or so ago (I think) - and my system is slow enough as it is (it can't use DDR2 RAM) for me to really bother with fast graphics anyway.
-dav7
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