[perhaps off topic?] Intel GM965 and linux

[gianluca.colucci]

Hello everybody,

I am sorry if with this post I go a bit off topic but I am planning to buy a PC that uses the chipset Intel GM965. As far as I know, with this chipset the graphic card (Graphics Media Accelerator X3100) is "onboard" and implemented by the GM965.

What I would like to know is:
1) has anyone experienced problems with this chipset and/or with the graphic accelarator? Is there any compatibility issue?
2) if I use emulators such as mupen64plus, will I experience speed problems and slow-down that will make any game unplayable?
3) is this "graphic accelerator" at least decent (if not good) for other applications, which are not the usual word-processing, etc.

Thanks a lot,

Cheers,
Gianluca.

[Nepherte]

1) Never
2) Dunno, but in general a on board vga is not suited for gaming (tetris, packman,... excluded)
3) I can run any application just fine without any slowdown. Compiz runs smooth as well.

[Methuselah]

Intel graphics should be well supported in linux.

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html

I can't really answer your other questions with certainty.

[gtdaqua]

1) Never
2) Dunno, but in general a on board vga is not suited for gaming (tetris, packman,... excluded)
3) I can run any application just fine without any slowdown. Compiz runs smooth as well.

Onboard graphics are good. It depends on what card that is. GM965 is very good for gaming because of the X3100 Graphics. Anything lesser than GM965 is not going to be good and will tend to be slow if you want to play the latest games.

I used to play Flight Simulator 9 on my P4 HT Laptop with nVIDIA 128MB on-board graphics card. No remarkable performance complaints. It would have run even better on a GM965, may be.

[gianluca.colucci]

Thank you very much for all your answers!

Gianluca.

[Golem XIV]

My experience with the 965 on a Dell Vostro 1400 notebook:

Perfectly fine for general work; suspend/resume work without problems, video is fine, standard games run without problems.

3D games have a nasty habit of locking up after 10-20 minutes of playing, though. Also, I had a problem with Skype sometimes crashing if i try to enable my video (this could be Skype, the webcam or the 965 - I haven't traced it yet).

This is on Hardy, Gutsy has more serious problems with this chipset.