It would be interesting to compare the performance of the item delivered stock with Ubuntu vs up to date Mesa stuff from cvs or whatnot. The new Dell Linux laptop, the 1420N is also Santa-Rosa. It's pretty inexpensive considering it's size. It's a 12inch Santa-Rosa style laptop with the GMA X3100 graphics. DirectX 9 and OpenGL 1.4 support for Windows XP or better. I know there is a 965-glsl branch for shading language support. Chell supports the GMA 950, GMA 965 (X3000), the GMA 3000, GMA 3100, GMA 3150 and some of the. It would be interesting to see how this translates to GMA X3000 or GMA X3100 (Santa Rosa Laptops) performance since the hardware is capable of accelerating that sort of thing. but its definitely a step in the right direction.Īs you probably know DRI drivers are derived from the Mesa OpenGL stack, which is obviously what Intel uses for 3D performance.

This does not necessarily translate directly to shading support in the DRI drivers, even if the hardware supports it. Intel GMA 4500 M / MHD Extreme Plus 2 (by nIGHTmAYOR) Full Name : Intel (R) Graphics Media Accelerator Family Version : 20. Well everyone saw reviews about GMA 950 when it was released and there was very much negative responses from gamers that this is a stupid old card which was not able to play games like painkiller, splinter cell chaos theory even when it meets all the requirements. They also have a GLSL compiler and some shading language support among other things. Give me the latest link for GMA 950 Modded Driver, n yes sure the link not dead.

This is the stable release supporting OpenGL 2.1 API.

yep the xf86-video-intel driver is pretty irrelevent when it comes to 3d performance. Also driver releases tend to go along with new X.org releases that may have some overal performance increase.īut other then that. It will need support from the xf86-video-intel driver for that. graphics card is an intel gma x4500 my laptops is an intel gma 950. The xf86-video-intel driver can possibly have some impact on 3D performance.įor example, up and coming versions of Mesa will support more advanced memory management schemes that will directly impact DRI driver performance. i want to fix flashlight lag in opengl and i dont want to render with software or.

Gma 950 bad opengl