intel driver for xorg on hoary

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Christoph Sturm wrote:

> 
> http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010512.htm#1
> 
> does this driver offer better performance than the standard xorg
> driver? is it planned to include it in ubuntu main?
> 

The best performance on these cards (IMHO) comes from the framebuffer 
device in the kernel.  In my case module i830.  You then enable 
framebuffer support in X and install the mesa-dri libs.  You should then 
get reasonable performance on the console framebuffer and in x.org, 
including hardware excellerated openGL.

Intel told a few fibs in earlier drivers for these boards and thats why 
performance used to be so poor but developers worked out what was really 
happening and this is why current free software versions of the driver 
are so good.

plus you won't be tainting the kernel by using drivers with doubious 
licences.

> thanks
>  chris

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