solved Bad graphics/video performance

[kery]

Hi,

after managing to install stage3 MATE variant and enabling gfxcard-intel mix-in (for Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller, in particular a GLE960) + updating the entire system, i still get bad video performance on players like vlc (stuttering and high cpu usage). The high cpu usage, bad video quality and stuttering is a clear indication that there is very likely no hw acceleration involved or wrong/missing codecs. Any ideas what to fix or look at to find the cause? I had a live NomadBSD usb pen at hand and checked just for testing purposes the video output and quality there. Hw acceleration works out of the box and video quality was excellent, no stutter, no (too) high cpu usage.

epro show:

=== Enabled Profiles: ===

        arch: x86-64bit
       build: next
     subarch: core2_64
      flavor: desktop
     mix-ins: mate
     mix-ins: gfxcard-vmware
     mix-ins: gfxcard-kvm
     mix-ins: gfxcard-radeon
     mix-ins: gfxcard-amdgpu
     mix-ins: gfxcard-nvidia
     mix-ins: gfxcard-intel


=== Python kit: ===

      branch: next

=== All inherited flavor from desktop flavor: ===

                     workstation (from desktop flavor)
                            core (from workstation flavor)
                         minimal (from core flavor)

=== All inherited mix-ins from desktop flavor: ===

                               X (from workstation flavor)
                           audio (from workstation flavor)
                             dvd (from workstation flavor)
                           media (from workstation flavor)
      mediadevice-audio-consumer (from media mix-in)
                mediadevice-base (from mediadevice-audio-consumer mix-in)
      mediadevice-video-consumer (from media mix-in)
                mediadevice-base (from mediadevice-video-consumer mix-in)
        mediaformat-audio-common (from media mix-in)
          mediaformat-gfx-common (from media mix-in)
        mediaformat-video-common (from media mix-in)
                  console-extras (from workstation flavor)
                           print (from desktop flavor)

=== All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-vmware mix-ins: ===

      core-gl-kit:gfxcard-vmware (from gfxcard-vmware mix-in)

=== All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-kvm mix-ins: ===

         core-gl-kit:gfxcard-kvm (from gfxcard-kvm mix-in)

=== All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-radeon mix-ins: ===

      core-gl-kit:gfxcard-radeon (from gfxcard-radeon mix-in)

=== All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-amdgpu mix-ins: ===

      core-gl-kit:gfxcard-amdgpu (from gfxcard-amdgpu mix-in)

=== All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-nvidia mix-ins: ===

      core-gl-kit:gfxcard-nvidia (from gfxcard-nvidia mix-in)

=== All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-intel mix-ins: ===

       core-gl-kit:gfxcard-intel (from gfxcard-intel mix-in)
      core-gl-kit:gfxcard-intel-iris (from core-gl-kit:gfxcard-intel mix-in)

lshw -C display:
 

  *-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 0c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:e0400000-e04fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:2000(size=8) memory:c0000-dffff

Thanks in advance

K.

Edited March 3, 2023 by kery

[kery]

Progress report: Disabling the MATE Software Compositor (System->Prefrences->Look and Feel->Windows) made stuff like VLC playing smooth, but started graphics tearing. No solution at all, but info maybe helps others somehow (or watching videos temporarily stutter free 😂 ).

[kery]

Fix and bug Report here: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-11061

[drobbins]

@kery thanks for plodding through this. For those interested, we have a full write-up of issues encountered by @kery during install in our Feb 23 Newsletter: