On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 11:37 -0700, John Reiser wrote: > On 05/03/2012 07:05 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > My personal opinion is that Core and up are pretty tolerable and anything less kind of isn't but also already kind of wasn't. But I no longer really have any idea whether my threshold for acceptable interactivity matches that of anyone else. Nor do I own any of the non-free Intel kit - on the > > grounds of not rewarding Intel's duplicity - so I have no real idea what it's like there either. > > On Apple Macintosh Mini, 1.6GHz Core Duo (2 CPU, sse, sse2; but i686 only) > with Intel 945GM graphics (i915 driver) [5-year old first "Mac-tel"], glxgears > stutters horribly. FPS averages between 5 and 9, although some spurts of 15 > or so can be seen. The text output says to expect frame rate synchronized > with refresh, but this is nowhere near the case. > > On Apple Macintosh Mini, 2.3GHz Core i5-2415M (2 CPU, x86_64, hyperthreading capable) > with PCI 8086:0126 "2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics > Controller (rev 09)" [the currently-shipping Apple model] (i915 driver), > glxgears is sync'ed perfectly to the refresh (about 59.88 FPS). When ajax says 'proprietary Intel hardware' he's talking about the Poulsbo stuff (GMA500/600). but thanks for the report! seems odd that glxgears would be so slow on the Mac Mini, I can't think of a reason for that. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test