Fedora 10 and Aspire One intel GMA 945

Hello guys, i've installed fedora 10 but i got a problem. GMA performance is too low. When i am login into Fedora screen is'nt smooth, it is too slow.... Next, when i turned compiz on i came to see that Desktop Effects are not running smooth as they should be. glxgears ~200FPS when in Ubuntu i am getting much more. Sorry for my poor english, can anyone know a sugestion to solve this problem??

 

copy this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
	FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel"
	VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
	BoardName   "Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
	VideoRam    229376
	Option	    "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,VGA"
	Option	    "Clone" "true"
	Option	    "AccelMethod" "EXA"
	Option	    "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
	Option	    "CacheLines" "1980"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

and restart your machine, this should up the glx gears to about 750 and generally improve your desktop performance you may also want to switch to using either xfce or lxde instead of gnome as it will result in a better performance desktop

phil

 

anyway if xorg.conf is empty?

 

yes there won't be an xorg.conf as standard as the x devs think x is beyond needing one, but unfortunatley this is not the case, so like i said create the file, reboot your machine and enjoy a better desktop experience. or don't and stick with what you have now

phil

 

cool i'll give it a try. Should it help too with KDE 4.2 bad performance too?

 

well it will certainly help your desktop performance, but kde4.2 has other issues (though it is getting better and better with each update) that may be causing you problems. post back when you put the xorg.conf in place and let me know how you got on

phil

 

works very good i am happy now. Any way to get plymouth works?

 

yes you need to add vga=0x315 to the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf, mine looks like this

Code:

title Fedora (2.6.29.1-30.fc10.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.1-30.aoa150.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=1606aae5-77ef-4a81-ae0b-a26940d6338b clocksource=hpet vga=0x315 rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.29.1-30.aoa150.fc10.i686.img

phil

 

should plymouth be smooth or it works a little "laggy"??