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On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Sean V Kelley sean.v.kelley@intel.com wrote:
I'm also a bit bummed that hw acceleration of video doesn't seem to work on Haswell, meaning that full-screen is now a jerky mess. I fear that that is user-space libraries/X.org, but I thought I'd mention it in the hope of getting a "oh, it's working for us, you'll get a fix for it soon".
Can you give a little more detail about video not working? Video accel should work fine with the current versions of libva/intel-driver available in Fedora 19 - assuming that's what you're using.
It is indeed F19.
Easy test: go to youtube, and watch things that are in 1080p HD. They play fine in a window (using about 70% CPU), but full-screened to 2560x1440 they play at about one or two frames per second.
Non-HD content seems to be fine even full-screen. Either just because it's so much easier to do, or because some level of scaling is hw-accelerated.
It may well be that I'm using chrome (and chrome seems to tend to use its own library versions), and firefox indeed seems to be a bit better. But by "a bit better" I mean closer to full frame rate in full-screen, but lots of tearing - and it was stil using 70% CPU when displaying in a window. So I think firefox is also still doing everything in software but may be better about using threads for it.
My previous i5-670 which was inferior in almost every other way didn't have these problems.. It had the same 2560x1440 display.
Linus