Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Daniel Tihelka <dtihelka@×××××.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
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>>   What do you see in glxgears?
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> I see this:
> Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
> approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.


I get this same message on my Intel graphics machine, and I get the
same frame rates which is what the message says...

> 273 frames in 5.0 seconds = 54.532 FPS
> 299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.634 FPS
> 301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.037 FPS
> 288 frames in 5.1 seconds = 56.852 FPS
> 212 frames in 5.0 seconds = 42.366 FPS  <-- window maximized from here
> 222 frames in 5.0 seconds = 44.352 FPS
> 216 frames in 5.0 seconds = 43.021 FPS
> 205 frames in 5.0 seconds = 40.716 FPS
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> It is not so much and I don't know if it is the top performance of the
> gallium driver (btw, I really believe it has large potential), or if it
> could be improved further more (e.g. by compilling lvm into it), but it is
> not critical for me now.
> Dan
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My ATI doesn't have the 'Running synchronized to the vertical refresh'
message. It does about 200FPS. On my wife's box I used the closed
source nvidia driver and get about 2500 FPS.

- Mark