I *think* those laptops have the top-end intel video drives....which are not much, but enough to render openGL.
I used to have a T61, with the Intel 3000 video card, running e17 with comp-scale and the old compositor backported from compiz (I don't recall the name, sorry). I would go for it. Get it installed in a different directory. Worst case, you'll have to restart your X session. Keep a backup copy of ~/.e before you start messing with E versions. 2014-03-19 19:50 GMT-03:00 Marc MERLIN <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:49:36PM +0900, Cedric BAIL wrote: > > > What can be done to speed things up for older hardware? > > > > Basically with E18 the composite module is the core of Enlightenment, > > you can only disable the configuration module. Reason is that for > > Wayland it is the only sane way for us to do the development, so > > that's not where you are going to get speed up. First, that's why we > > still recommend for distribution to provide E17. > > > > Now the question is what are the new constraint ? Basically in > > software anything that involve a massive number of pixels change is > > going to be slow. There is a direct link between the rendering speed > > and the amount of pixels being manipulated. So cutting down on > > animation is the first way to get some speedup. Another one would be > > to make a low complexity theme for E/Elm (something mostly based on > > rectangle with little image and animation). > > So, I have a thinkpad T540p with a 3K display (lots of pixels) and running > on the integrated intel chipset in the CPU. > > 3D performance is just ok enough and I've noticed that if I resize a video > to odd sizes, it gets kind of slow, even though with xv you'd think it > wouldn't matter. > > Long story short, am I going to hate my life if I upgrade from e17 to e18 > on that hardware? :) > > Thanks, > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - > A.S.R. > Microsoft is to operating systems .... > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet > cooking > Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- Wido ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
