Seeking comment on my Intel graphics xorg
Posted: 16 Mar 2025, 16:02
I was seeking a little extra performance with my integrated Intel graphics on some low end boxes, specifically UHD 500 and 600 onboard graphics.
I'm running Porteus 5.1 Alpha, with the XFCE compositor ENabled. I seem to notice an increase in performance somewhat, but want to make sure I'm not experiencing a diy placebo effect. I've seen this mentioned elsewhere, but no real testing other touting performance.
I manually created this file (20-intel.conf) in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
(Note that the identifier for Intel is capitalized, whereas the Driver for intel is lowercase. Also note the camel-case in Swapbuffers, where the "b" is not capitalized.)
I have no tearing to begin with, and seem to see a tad snappier performance. But I'm no graphics expert, and want to make sure I don't have values fighting each other, or perhaps changed to "true" in some sort of combination.. Like is there a DRI 3 these days?
UPDATE: I did some graphics research and am using "DRI 3" now. This above combo seems ok, and I might be hallucinating, but it feels like the xfce compositor likes it, or was at least a teeeny bit noticeable on this low-spec box.
I'm running Porteus 5.1 Alpha, with the XFCE compositor ENabled. I seem to notice an increase in performance somewhat, but want to make sure I'm not experiencing a diy placebo effect. I've seen this mentioned elsewhere, but no real testing other touting performance.
I manually created this file (20-intel.conf) in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
(Note that the identifier for Intel is capitalized, whereas the Driver for intel is lowercase. Also note the camel-case in Swapbuffers, where the "b" is not capitalized.)
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "TearFree" "false"
Option "TripleBuffer" "false"
Option "SwapbuffersWait" "false"
Option "DRI" "3"
EndSectionUPDATE: I did some graphics research and am using "DRI 3" now. This above combo seems ok, and I might be hallucinating, but it feels like the xfce compositor likes it, or was at least a teeeny bit noticeable on this low-spec box.