Upgrading the One's 3d drivers

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  1. BlackLagoon

    BlackLagoon

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    The 3d hardware acceleration drivers that come with the One are a bit out of date, so to update them, go to the terminal and type:

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    sudo yum -y update mesa-libGL
    They didn't make a huge difference for me, but I think there may have been a 10 or so increase in average FPS in glxgears (you can run it yourself from the terminal to get your own before and after numbers, though you may need to reboot before the update takes effect).
     
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    Raido

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    Good to know. Thanks for the info! :geek:

    Regards, R
     
    Raido, Jul 27, 2008
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    Demiurge

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    Thanks for the tip!

    Got about 70-80 more fps in glxgears :)
     
    Demiurge, Aug 9, 2008
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    I want to upgrade my graphics driver.

    Another user who upgraded his drivers has now lost his webcam functionality (See f=5&t=1297). Although I doubt I will ever use the webcam, it seems a shame to loose this feature. Does this driver update affect your webcam functionality at all?

    And how many FPS are u guys now seeing with the updated driver?
     
    sebdacrab, Aug 17, 2008
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    Demiurge

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    As far as I know, this one only updates the OpenGL-libraries while the other one updates the Intel-drivers for the GPU? I have not seen any negative sides from this one, webcam etc works fine :)

    Code:
    [user@aspire_one ~]$ glxgears
    2272 frames in 5.0 seconds = 454.337 FPS
    2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.997 FPS
    2360 frames in 5.0 seconds = 471.878 FPS
    2314 frames in 5.0 seconds = 462.774 FPS
    2329 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.776 FPS
    2337 frames in 5.0 seconds = 467.358 FPS
    2359 frames in 5.0 seconds = 471.746 FPS
    2353 frames in 5.0 seconds = 470.491 FPS
    2341 frames in 5.0 seconds = 468.087 FPS
    2348 frames in 5.0 seconds = 469.520 FPS
    2334 frames in 5.0 seconds = 466.615 FPS
    2348 frames in 5.0 seconds = 469.496 FPS
     
    Demiurge, Aug 17, 2008
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    It updates the Mesa libraries, which contain the Linux OpenGL (hardware 3d acceleration) drivers for cards with open source drivers like Intel chipsets and older ATI cards. annafil's post is about the X.org 2d driver.
     
    BlackLagoon, Aug 17, 2008
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    I ran the line of code in the terminal, at the end it showed lots of errors siting that I need libssl.so.6 is that normal, or did something go wrong?
     
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    Im not to familiar with the term "terminal" im guessing thats for linux, but is there a similar update for windows xp?
     
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    thankthankthank
     
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    I've updated the graphics drivers to 2.2.1 and updated mesa_libGL. Before updating mesa I got ~700fps from glxgears.
    Now:
    4654 frames in 5.0 seconds = 930.652 FPS
    4697 frames in 5.0 seconds = 939.148 FPS
    No problems with Compiz effects and my webcam still works :)
     
    Foranamo, Oct 18, 2008
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    Intel Atom 1.6GHz
    512MB RAM

    I'm gonna be upgrading to 1.5GB RAM when I can.
     
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    Holy cow.
    How on earth are you getting numbers that high?
     
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    I did that, and saw no improvement.

    I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, and I don't think 3D support is really working on it yet.
     
    Pandemonium, Oct 28, 2008
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    If anyone has gotten 3d acceleration working on 8.10, would you kindly post anything you've done to make it work, and perhaps your xorg.conf?
     
    Pandemonium, Oct 29, 2008
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    Pandemonium: unfortunately, the problem seems to be beyond simple configuration issues. In 8.10, the intel_batch hack simply isn't supported anymore... I'm still looking for a workaround
     
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    Gr.

    Ok i'll try 2.5 like in the thread... hope Hans sees this thread if he doesn't have better luck with his attemps at compilation I might be able to provide him with a package if it does indeed work better.

    Im pretty bummed about the batch option being gone, if we run out of options I'm gonna have to work on backporting the hardy version of xorg to Intrepid, drivers et al. ANyone wanna help?
     
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    with 2.5 fps dropped from 350 to 70
     
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    Where do we get those drivers but for WinXp?

    Thanks!
     
    Raiden, Nov 14, 2008
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