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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Speed up ATI Radeon X300 with google-earth?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:44:13
Message-Id: 20060616033851.GB21620@waltdnes.org
1 The linux version of google-earth runs^H^H^H^H crawls OK on my system,
2 except for the fact that it is excruciatingly slow due to software
3 emulation. According to "lspci -v", I have...
4
5 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300
6 (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
7 Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 1b60
8 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
9 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
10 I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
11 Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
12 [virtual] Expansion ROM at e8000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
13 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
14 Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
15 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
16 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
17
18 05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
19 Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 1b61
20 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
21 Memory at e9010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
22 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
23 Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
24
25 Can I set any tweaks for the open source ATI Radeon driver to speed
26 things up? I do *NOT* want to go back to fglrx. It gave true Windows
27 emulation... including hard lockups that required power-recycling to get
28 out of... grrr.
29
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31 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
32 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up ATI Radeon X300 with google-earth? Ryan Tandy <tarpman@×××××.com>