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On 2007-03-09, Mark Kirkwood <markir@××××××××××××.nz> wrote: |
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> Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> I did "eselect opengl ati", ran aticonfig, and did the setup as per |
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>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers (including reboot and |
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>> re-install of ati-drivers) |
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>> Testing with glxgears, I get... |
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>> waltdnes@m3000 ~ $ glxgears |
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>> 7492 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1498.333 FPS |
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>> googleearth still runs^H^H^H^H^H crawls under OpenGL. |
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> Yep - not that impressive, did you try the Xorg Radeon driver? |
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The "radeon" driver doesn't support DRI on cards that recent. |
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> Using the same test on inferior HW (2xPIII 1.26Ghz + MSI |
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> Radean 9550) with "radeon" driver I get: |
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> 8931 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1786.100 FPS |
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That's not going to make a noticable difference. You have to |
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have DRI to make Google Earth usable. |
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