[ubuntu-x] Intel SNA tested by anyone?

[Eric Appleman]

On 06/08/2011 02:01 AM, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> 2011/6/8 Eric Appleman<erappleman at gmail.com>:
>>> xorg-edgers's bdb396a4 build should have it. So just asking if anyone
>>> was brave enough to test it yet :)
>>>
>> *raises hand*
>>
>> I went from 2 fps to 40 fps on the fishtank test.
>
> Working fast and smooth here as well on 965G (GMA X3000) since
> yesterday. And on an Atom N470 laptop (GMA 3150) which also really
> needed it. Suspend and resume among else seem to work fine. Intel
> finally and suddenly now raises from the mediocre graphics performance
> area regarding normal tasks! Of course this was known for a long time
> that there is unused performance reserve, but still... it's surprising
> when something suddenly changes.
>
> -Timo
>
I'm just glad older chipsets aren't forgotten on Linux. It's not just 
for continual improvement or proprietary parity, it's a passion to push 
the hardware to its limits. Intel just stops updating drivers them for 
Windows and Mac after a certain point.

With gallium-915/965 on the horizon, there's no endgame in sight for the 
i9xx series. Maybe in a few years there will be a silent funeral through 
a retirement to fbdev like the i8xxx.

- Eric