I can not test sandy bridge, but most likely a daily build of u 11.04 might be able to use the internal gfx card already. When they would include a recent libva then xbmc or vlc (or a special mplayer which is not the default one) could use accelleration too. You definitely can forget distributions released 2010 for sb.
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I was able to get my new h67-based sandy bridge system running on fedora 14 linux with graphics without much trouble.
Little more than:
yum --enablerepo=rawhide install kernel
yum --enablerepo=rawhide update libdrm
yum update mesa-dri-drivers mesa-libGL
yum install xorg-x11-server-devel
download xf86-video-intel-2.14:
configure
make
make install
cp the intel_drv.so from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers
change /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use the intel driver
That's not so hard is it? Don't even need to do a fresh OS install.
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Originally posted by baddog View PostAs measured with what? I don't use any 3d apps under linux so I don't know offhand. I could fire up a benchmark if I was pointed in the right direction.
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Originally posted by psycho_driver View PostHmm, you probably have glxgears on your system. It doesn't really tell a whole lot outside of very basic 3d throughput.
Code:% glxgears Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "unix:0.0". Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 361 frames in 5.3 seconds = 68.130 FPS 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.994 FPS 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.994 FPS 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.994 FPS 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.994 FPS ^C % uptime 18:56:53 up 3 min, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.23, 0.12 % a[Kcat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 1600.000 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6782.18 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 ...
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Originally posted by psycho_driver View PostHmm, you probably have glxgears on your system. It doesn't really tell a whole lot outside of very basic 3d throughput.
GLXgears is not a benchmark. The only thing that the numbers are useful for is to tell you if you have hardware acceleration or not.
*** NOTE: Don't use glxgears as a benchmark.
OpenGL implementations are not optimized for frame rates >> 60fps,
thus these numbers are meaningless when compared between vendors.
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Originally posted by deanjo View Post/bangs head against wall.......
GLXgears is not a benchmark. The only thing that the numbers are useful for is to tell you if you have hardware acceleration or not.
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