Intel Corporation 82865G graphic card - 160fps in glxgears

Again Im here ((:
as topis says my grafhic card Intel Corporation 82865G is running on 160fps in glxgears...
installation looked like this :
pacman -S xf86-video-intel
gpasswd -a username video
and result:
$ glxgears
731 frames in 5.0 seconds = 145.987 FPS
711 frames in 5.0 seconds = 142.138 FPS
709 frames in 5.0 seconds = 141.796 FPS
724 frames in 5.0 seconds = 144.790 FPS
$ glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes
I know that glxgears should not be used as performance test, but this is really disappointing... In last arch instalation I was getting around 250 and whan I boot into ubuntu 7.04 live cd its around 300fps... something must be wrong!
can someone give me a hand?
thanks

Gusar wrote:Intel driver only uses UXA, everything else was removed a few versions ago. And glxgears really is not a benchmark, those numbers are meaningless. The question is, does everything work ok, or does it work slower than it used to?
I've already asked him about it
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 76#p796576

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X.Org X Server 1.9.4
Release Date: 2011-02-04
[ 2900.308] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 2900.308] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.37-ARCH i686
[ 2900.308] Current Operating System: Linux dragonL 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 25 09:07:57 UTC 2011 i686
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Please use [ code ] tags for pasting code https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode as it makes your posts much easier to read.
There's a problem with old Intel cards and the current Intel drivers. Unfortunately using older drivers means downgrading xorg-server and friends. Read about downgrading in the wiki.
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[karol@black ~]$ lspci | grep -i vga
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I have a 2TB backup drive and a 6TB RAID network storage. I load new video directly onto the backup drive to save hard drive space on the iMac, then copy it to the RAID for safekeeping. I can wipe it from the backup when I'm done with it, and still have two copies on the network RAID. I consider this to be the minimum for HD.
I ended up with about five hours of AVCHD footage that I had to sort through to pick out the little morsels I needed, along with some .MOV files from a DSLR. I'm not sure how much space it took up when I converted the AVCHD into .MOV files, but I started out with about 650GB available (after clearing it off) and now I have about 150 GB. That includes what FCPX generated as I edited. I don't want to go below that 150GB level, as the processing performance drops. I keep the .MOV files on the main hard drive because that's the quickest access. I keep a sharp eye on the capacity.
Fortunately I did well enough on this project that it got me a lot more work. Unfortunately, if I decide to pursue it more seriously I know I'll have to get a better system. I'm already looking at the new Mac Pro with at least 32 Gs of RAM, the biggest internal hard drive available, and a massive Thunderbolt RAID. With the deadlines I've run into, it's the only way I'll be able to get things done without staying up until 4 a.m. waiting for stuff to transfer (I got this iMac just before they started coming out with Thunderbolt, darn it). If I had to choose, I'd get more hard drive storage versus more RAM. In my experience, 16GB does OK, but then I haven't had to render anything longer than ten minutes in HD.
If you use Time Machine for back-up onto the 1TB external drive, you're probably going to have to get an additional drive. I would recommend one to two TB depending on how big your final files are. If you decide to RAID that second external drive-- highly recommended-- then you'd need to get double that. Get a Thunderbolt splitter so you can run both of them at the same time. If you need to convert the RAW files, keep those on the second drive.
Very best of luck, and send us a link to the piece when you are done. -JB

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