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I recently bought a Lenovo thinkpad X201 which had Ubuntu pre-installed on it. I wiped that and installed Arch instead. I meant to backup /etc before I wiped Ubuntu - but I forgot. Oops.
When I was running Ubuntu glxgears revealed fps of over 2000 - whereas now I'm only getting around 50-60. Glxinfo indicates that direct rendering is on.
I believe that the video driver I'm using is xf86-video-intel.
Since this laptop is clearly capable of much better graphics performance than I'm getting - does anyone have any ideas on how I might improve it?
Thanks in advance.
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hi,
recent intel-drivers have vsync enabled. that's why you only get 60fps. nothing to worry about.
ccc1
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Thanks for the reply. So, presumably, vsync is only affecting the numbers and not the actual performance?
OK - in that case the numbers aren't the only problem. Last night I tried watching a flash based film. When it was simply embedded in the page it was fine, but when I tried to view it full screen it was unwatchably slow. I'm sure this laptop is more than capable of playing back the video, although I suppose the issue could be to do with a 32 bit flashplugin on a 64 bit machine...
Any ideas?
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Thanks for the reply. So, presumably, vsync is only affecting the numbers and not the actual performance?
OK - in that case the numbers aren't the only problem. Last night I tried watching a flash based film. When it was simply embedded in the page it was fine, but when I tried to view it full screen it was unwatchably slow. I'm sure this laptop is more than capable of playing back the video, although I suppose the issue could be to do with a 32 bit flashplugin on a 64 bit machine...
Any ideas?
Try installing this http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072
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I'm sure this laptop is more than capable of playing back the video, although I suppose the issue could be to do with a 32 bit flashplugin on a 64 bit machine...
Any ideas?
install flashplugin-prerelease-64bit from aur:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072
ccc1
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Hmmm - that may have fixed the problem. Hard to be sure, though, as the site I was watching the film on (lovefilm.com) now says my version of flash isn't high enough... < 10.0.32 - it says my version is 10.0
Youtube does look a little better though - I think...
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No - having watched a few more youtube videos - it's definitely jerkier in full screen...
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