2009-01-08, 03:58
Hi I am a linux newbie although this is the 3rd of my computers I have installed ubuntu on. This 3rd one is giving me problems with XBMC, its running too slow to be usable. Any pointers would be great.
Heres whats running on my Acer Aspire Laptop:
lntel Core 2 Duo 1.66 Ghz
1GB RAM
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
ubuntu 8.1 (i686)
XBMC installed from PPA (version in synaptic says: 8.10final1-intrepid4)
Visual effects in Ubuntu are set to 'None'
When I do glxgears I am only getting about 240fps
I realise that the graphics card is pretty much minimum requirements but I have my laptop on dual boot for the moment and XBMC runs fine in Vista with the hardware i have, but i would really like to run linux as my main OS.
I have searched lots of forums and there does seem to be some issues with this graphics card but i have struggled to find a definitive answer
I have tried updating xorg config with
and updating /etc/profile with:
but this didn't make any difference
Running glxinfo | grep renderer results in this:
I am not sure if that's correct?? but even if it is not correct I am not sure what next steps I should take to try and get the video card to play nice (if its at all possible)
Any help much appreciated. Cheers
Heres whats running on my Acer Aspire Laptop:
lntel Core 2 Duo 1.66 Ghz
1GB RAM
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
ubuntu 8.1 (i686)
XBMC installed from PPA (version in synaptic says: 8.10final1-intrepid4)
Visual effects in Ubuntu are set to 'None'
When I do glxgears I am only getting about 240fps
I realise that the graphics card is pretty much minimum requirements but I have my laptop on dual boot for the moment and XBMC runs fine in Vista with the hardware i have, but i would really like to run linux as my main OS.
I have searched lots of forums and there does seem to be some issues with this graphics card but i have struggled to find a definitive answer
I have tried updating xorg config with
Code:
Section "Device"
(...)
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,VGA"
Option "Clone" "true"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
VideoRam 229376
Option "CacheLines" "1980"
EndSection
and updating /etc/profile with:
Code:
export INTEL_BATCH=1
but this didn't make any difference
Running glxinfo | grep renderer results in this:
Code:
OpenGL renderer string: Software rasterizer
I am not sure if that's correct?? but even if it is not correct I am not sure what next steps I should take to try and get the video card to play nice (if its at all possible)
Any help much appreciated. Cheers