gma 950 can't play any game (direct rendering is enable)

madnerves · 2009-02-17 12:41:27

Hi all,

I bought a Msi Wind few weeks ago, and today i wanted to play a game (such as planetshift and Enemy Territory).
I installed them and luanched them. Both lagged a lot.
So, i went to my xorg.conf to see if i forgot something but i can't notice anything wrong, check by yourself :

##
## /etc/X11/xorg.conf
##
##Default Configuration
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
Option "ZapWarning" "on"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "EcranWind" 0 0
# InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load    "dbe"
Load "bitmap"
Load "i2c"
Load "vbe"
Load "ddc"
#Load    "type1"
Load    "freetype"
Load    "extmod"
Load    "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "DRI"
Load "synaptics"
Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver    "synaptics"
Identifier    "Mouse[1]"
Option    "Buttons" "5"
Option    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option    "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option    "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option    "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option    "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
Option    "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option    "SHMConfig" "on"
Option    "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
##Scrolling vertical
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true"
##Scrolling Horizontal
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "true"
##TapToClick Activation
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
##Pressure below this level triggers release
Option "FingerLow" "25"
##pressure below this level triggers touch
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
##Enable continuous scroll with finger in corner
Option "CornerCoasting" "true"
##Corner coasting speed
Option "CoastingSpeed" "0.30"
##Vertical scroll anywhere with 2 fingers
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "true"
##Horizontal scroll anywhere with 2 fingers
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "true"
##Speed factor for low pointer movement
# Option "MinSpeed" "0.40"
##Maximum speed factor for fast pointer movement
# Option "MaxSpeed" "0.60"
##Acceleration factor for normal pointer movements
# Option    "AccelFactor" "0.0020"
##Make react faster on single tap
Option "FastTaps" "on"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
#Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "20"
Option "FingerLow" "7"
Option "FingerHigh" "8"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver    "mouse"
Identifier    "Mouse[3]"
Option    "Buttons" "5"
Option    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option    "Name" "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
Option    "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option    "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

## 4211 Screen
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "EcranWind"
Option "DPMS"
Gamma 0.85
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x600"
EndSection
## VGA Screen
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "VGAMonitor"
Option "DPMS"
Option "RightOf" "EcranWind"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
EndSection
## Graphic Card GMA 950
Section "Device"
Identifier "CarteIntel"
Driver "intel"
Option "DRI" "true"
Option "FramebufferCompression" "on"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
## For enabling the old acceleration 3d (stable)
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
## For enabling the new acceleration 3d (not stable)
# Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "Tiling" "on"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "ExaNoComposite" "false"
Option "Monitor-VGA" "VGAMonitor"
Option "Monitor-LVDS" "EcranWind"
VideoRam 229376
Option "CacheLines" "1980"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "EcranWind"
Device "CarteIntel"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
# Virtual 2304 1880
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Also, I did a glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" and it says that it is enabled (Direct Rendering : yes).

I Don't know what to do...

I noticed that if i put 16bits instead of 24bits in my xorg.conf, it works better and i have sound(that's why I added a new SubSection for 16 bits display).

Can somebody help me?
Thanks a lot

Last edited by madnerves (2009-02-17 12:42:33)

eldragon · 2009-02-17 12:54:51

i dont know about planetshift, but i dont think enemy territory will ever be playable on that hardware. out of my experience.

try openarena and see how much juice you can get out of it. this will give a general idea of how well is the gma950 performing.

madnerves · 2009-02-17 18:47:31

A friend of me has a GMA 950 and can play trackmania united, call of duty 2, enemy territory, unreal 3 etc... so don't think that i shoud stay with this problem.
Maybe there is something i and you don't know about ... a special thing to do to get it working as well as under windows... (bad word sorry all )

Dheart · 2009-02-17 19:00:45

Well... Intel's drivers on linux SUCK. Things have improved with the introduction of GEM, but that's only with the newer versions of a lot of applications (see thisthread for reference).
This, however, works only for GL 965 and above. For older models you'll have to wait for intel to introduce a lot of more fixes.
In other words - you're stuck with crappy drivers for now, but the situation will improve in the (not so) distant future.

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#1 2009-02-17 12:41:27

gma 950 can't play any game (direct rendering is enable)

#2 2009-02-17 12:54:51

Re: gma 950 can't play any game (direct rendering is enable)

#3 2009-02-17 18:47:31

Re: gma 950 can't play any game (direct rendering is enable)

#4 2009-02-17 19:00:45

Re: gma 950 can't play any game (direct rendering is enable)

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