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Installed Cinnamon 17.3 all the latest ISO/updates etc on an Acer Aspire with an Intel video card. It boots in software rendering, rendering this wee little lappy soggy slow. Thanks all, I've gone to Mate and it seems to be in direct rendering mode, not software rendering. I am happy, but wonder why Mate can use Intel's video hardware but not Cinnamon?

After all I assume the driver remains the same as well as the kernel! I was wondering the same thing. As best I can tell Mate and Cinnamon are actually using the same driver, it just that Mate makes it work less hard so it more acceptable. As my first post here I don't want to offend anyone or appear to pedantic but it seems to me the post should be flag as something like WORKAROUND not SOLVED as the the current solution is a compromise. In my case as an old laptop with the offending hardware is being used as workbench display and my other dev systems all run Cinnamon I will put up with the slow performance so that all my tools are the same. If it was my primary machine I suspect I would change to Mate. I had a look at the Intel supplied drivers but they date back to 2010 so I think trying to use them would be more trouble that is worth.

Matrox used to make consumer products. But now they make only multi-monitor gpu's that are used for elaborate professional displays their also the only company doing 6-card gpu combining thanks to triple-head-2-go its really something to see they currently operate with 2% of the market a while back they announced a partnership with amd. Im thinking amd was or is planning on swallowing matrox to improve their fire pro lineup of workstation cards matrox + amd is one swall idea if you ask me atm their best gpu on the professional side, when used in gaming is equal to a gt240/9600gt. Intel does integrated gfx.

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Never heard of matrox ClassicRockFTW Intel doesn't just make IGPs. Actually many companies make GPU's that just happen to use Nvidia and AMD specifications and chips. Intel makes GPU's, even if they are built-in, as does Nvidia with their NForce chipsets. The most-common manufacturers, the 'makers' of video cards based on AMD and Nvidia designs are EVGA, SAPPHIRE, XFX, MSI, HIS, ASUS and Gigabyte. Diamond has been around since the mid-late 1990's with their VooDoo 3d-Accelerator cards.

Stinger78 Nvidia sold off their chipset division a few years ago. I wouldn't call AIBs the 'makers' of the GPU, almost all those AIBs you listed don't even make their own cards, PCB + adding components. There were a lot of graphics cards brands out there that have fallen by the wayside or bought out over the years. Trident, Cirrus Logic, Number Nine, S3, Matrox, Rendition, 3DLabs, XGI, and of course, 3dfx (bought out by NVIDIA in December 2000). I probably still missed several in that list.

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For the last 10 years or so, the only relevant options for gaming have been ATI and NVIDIA. Matrox faded from relevance when the others started making dual-output graphics cards a standard feature, 2D image quality was becoming less of a consideration when 3D gaming was all the rage, and their newer GPUs couldn't keep up.

3dfx got haughty with their success in the mid-1990s and didn't advance their GPU architectures fast enough, with the Voodoo5 5500 being delayed by a year or so and then having to go up against much more capable competition with things like DX7 HT&L support (a feature Intel somehow managed to ignore with their DX9-class GMA IGPs!). I don't remember too much about the rest.

There were a lot of graphics cards brands out there that have fallen by the wayside or bought out over the years. Trident, Cirrus Logic, Number Nine, S3, Matrox, Rendition, 3DLabs, XGI, and of course, 3dfx (bought out by NVIDIA in December 2000). I probably still missed several in that list. For the last 10 years or so, the only relevant options for gaming have been ATI and NVIDIA. Matrox faded from relevance when the others started making dual-output graphics cards a standard feature, 2D image quality was becoming less of a consideration when 3D gaming was all the rage, and their newer GPUs couldn't keep up.

3dfx got haughty with their success in the mid-1990s and didn't advance their GPU architectures fast enough, with the Voodoo5 5500 being delayed by a year or so and then having to go up against much more capable competition with things like DX7 HT&L support (a feature Intel somehow managed to ignore with their DX9-class GMA IGPs!). I don't remember too much about the rest. NamelessPlayer Early Intel DX9 IGP runs thier vertex shaders on the CPU i.e.

Similar to PS3's CELL running vertex shaders but done badly. Imagination Technologies (used in Intel GMA 35x0 IGP aka PowerVR SGX545 @ 500Mhz) ronvalencia I knew I was forgetting one.

Most people don't know this, but PowerVR GPUs actually started off in the desktop 3D accelerator space. They never had much of a foothold in the market compared to 3dfx, ATI and NVIDIA, though. As it turns out, the PowerVR tile-based rendering approach worked out better for embedded applications, so they moved to that with great success. And speaking of Intel graphics processors, the Intel 2700G found in the Dell Axim X50v/X51v and other early ARM-based devices of the day, back when an Intel PXA270 at 624 MHz was considered blazing-fast, also happens to be a rebranded PowerVR MBX Lite. Early Intel DX9 IGP runs thier vertex shaders on the CPU i.e.

Similar to PS3's CELL running vertex shaders but done badly. Ronvalencia That's my point. If it runs on the CPU, then they shouldn't be calling it a HARDWARE implementation, especially in the case of Hardware Transform & Lighting. At least Intel seems to have finally caught up there, but they still have other issues, like poor OpenGL support that some source ports of old games can't stand.

QUOTE='ronvalencia'Imagination Technologies (used in Intel GMA 35x0 IGP aka PowerVR SGX545 @ 500Mhz) NamelessPlayer I knew I was forgetting one. Most people don't know this, but PowerVR GPUs actually started off in the desktop 3D accelerator space. They never had much of a foothold in the market compared to 3dfx, ATI and NVIDIA, though.

As it turns out, the PowerVR tile-based rendering approach worked out better for embedded applications, so they moved to that with great success. And speaking of Intel graphics processors, the Intel 2700G found in the Dell Axim X50v/X51v and other early ARM-based devices of the day, back when an Intel PXA270 at 624 MHz was considered blazing-fast, also happens to be a rebranded PowerVR MBX Lite. Early Intel DX9 IGP runs thier vertex shaders on the CPU i.e. Similar to PS3's CELL running vertex shaders but done badly.

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Ronvalencia That's my point. If it runs on the CPU, then they shouldn't be calling it a HARDWARE implementation, especially in the case of Hardware Transform & Lighting. At least Intel seems to have finally caught up there, but they still have other issues, like poor OpenGL support that some source ports of old games can't stand. Intel GMA 35x0 should be Intel GMA 36x0 e.g. 650Mhz for PowerVR SGX545. Intel GMA 500 uses PowerVR SGX 535.