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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hello All,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I am</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">trying to measure the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">best</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">performance of a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">n Intel</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> GM45</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">graphics chipset</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">running on Fedora Core 11 (x86_64).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I am running</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the Fedora stock</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Xorg server. Glxinfo tells me direct rendering is enabled.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">My questions are :</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">1. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Do I need to build and install the Xfree</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">86</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> server that normally ships with the Intel driver? Or can I take advantage of dri with my setup</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">as-is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (i.e. Xorg</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> plus my Intel driver</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> ?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">2. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Other than</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">enabling</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">loading glx and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> dri modules in the xorg.conf</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Module</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> section, is there anything else I need to do (i.e. re-link my apps, etc</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">…</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">)?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">3. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Will I see a difference in performance between Xorg and Xfree86?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thanks in advance.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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