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mthakur2006
June 1st, 2007, 09:48 AM
Hi,
I have a laptop (see my sig for the specs). I run beryl on it and everytime I do something (e.g. scroll in firefox (which is quite sttuttery at 187 Mhz CPU Freq) or minimize a window or anything, the cpu usage shoots up to 100% and the frequency is scaled upto 1.5Ghz. I don't want any solutions but what I want to know that if my CPU is doing all the graphics processing, what is my GPU doing?
Thanks.

Outrunner
June 1st, 2007, 09:59 AM
You don't have a GPU, you have an IGP(integrated graphics chipset) which leaves much to be desired...

mthakur2006
June 1st, 2007, 10:04 AM
You don't have a GPU, you have an IGP(integrated graphics chipset) which leaves much to be desired...

what does that mean?

xtang
June 1st, 2007, 10:10 AM
means that integrated graphics chipsets arent as powerful as dedicated ones.

It should be doing some work though

mthakur2006
June 1st, 2007, 10:14 AM
means that integrated graphics chipsets arent as powerful as dedicated ones.

It should be doing some work though

does it mean that it should be using my CPU?

xtang
June 1st, 2007, 10:39 AM
both the gpu and cpu are used.

Im sure people with integrated graphics have managed to get their beryl working properly anyway. theres something wrong with your setup probably.