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Usually the slowness comes from the graphic driver, not the X server. Many netbooks use an intel graphic chipset with closed specs, and therefore run under linu
by wazoox 16y ago
Usually the slowness comes from the graphic driver, not the X server. Many netbooks use an intel graphic chipset with closed specs, and therefore run under linux using the very slow VESA driver. This is definitely the makers (particularly Intel) fault, not Linux.
- ced 16y agoHow does that make a difference for boot time and non-compiz desktop use? Isn't the screen image rendered by the CPU, and blitted to the video memory?
- colanderman 16y agoAlmost all modern video drivers provide 2D acceleration (including Intel's X.org driver). From firsthand experience, I can attest that running unaccelerated X is painfully slow.
- dmm 16y agoActually Intel is one of the best manufacturers about releasing documentation. Nvidia is one of the worst. ATI/AMD is pretty good. Suspend/resume is problematic because the device manufacturers don't implement ACPI to the spec, the implement it to whatever works with Windows. Try OpenBSD sometime. Their have an independent implementation of AML that might work where others do not.
- vetinari 16y agoWhile Intel is pretty good with the support in general, they screwed up with the Poulsbo (GMA500) thing, which was popular in netbooks.
- norswap 16y agoI used the Intel open source drivers (http://intellinuxgraphics.org/ http://intellinuxgraphics.org/), that's not the culprit.
- hakl 16y agoThey licensed tech from Imagination Technologies for their low-end GMA500 chip.