Preferred (gentoo) Intel Stack?

[m h]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 17:56 -0700, m h wrote:
>> > Hmmm, thanks all for the responses.  Perhaps this is a weird
>> > interaction with Awesome wm/xcb?  Am running intel/mesa/etc ~amd64
>> > now, and am only getting 64 fps on glxgears.  Also during a compile
>> > (gentoo) it appears that konsole text scrolling is causing X to chug
>> > on the cpu....  And I can still get xine fullscreen to crash X.
>>
>> I should note that the 64fps is with glxinfo saying the direct rendering in on!
>
> Probably syncing to vblank..
>
> Try:
>
> vblank_mode=0 glxgears

yep get around 117 fps with vblank_mode=0.  Seems like it used to be
around 1000fps or so on my R52...(also intel chip).  Oh well, 3d isn't
as pressing to me as the annoying XV/xine fullscreen crash....