[SOLVED] Low FPS with intel graphics

[stratman4300]

Hello all!.

Purchased a slightly used T61 Thinkpad via a client of ours at work last week. I've been really happy with it so far, dumped 4GB RAM in it and have Vmware workstation running on it and all is well except the graphics drivers.

According to LSPCI the machine contains the device listed below.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

X displays just fine and compiz works out of the box, but I'm only getting around 59 FPS with GLXgears. I do like to play the occasional game and what not, so i'm really hoping to get this increased. I've heard of guys running Tremulous on this card, so I imagine it can do it.

Is this low for this card? Anyone else run into this?

I've tried looking around the intarwebs, but have not found anything recent. (in the last two years).

Thanks in advanced.

[consolation]

no, intel integrated is a terrible gpu. 965, that's x3000 iirc - It's enough to accelerate the desktop, but that's pretty much it. There's no "good" intel gpu.

[stratman4300]

I figured that would be the case.

Oh well, at least it's still enough to run my emulators!

Thanks for the reply.