Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 01:36:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 01:36:08 -0400 Received: from paloma14.e0k.nbg-hannover.de ([62.181.130.14]:56470 "HELO paloma14.e0k.nbg-hannover.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 01:36:07 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Dieter =?iso-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= Organization: DN To: "Kristofer T. Karas" Subject: Re: System very unstable Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 07:41:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: Linux Kernel List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200209290741.40679.Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2063 Lines: 58 On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 00:42, Kristofer T. Karas wrote: > On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 07:34, David S. Miller wrote: > > This is old news, they opensource the drivers at a later date, > > this is how it's always worked with ATI. > > Note that ATI now has a binary driver available that supports the 8500, > written by their German development group. Available via their standard > "find a driver" page, using Linux as OS. See, for example, > http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon8500/linux/radeon8500 \ > linuxdrivers.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+8500 \ > LE&cmdNext=GO%21 > > The scripts that build a kernel module and link it against their library > work pretty well and are, to their credit, not impossibly tied to one > distro over another. :-) I run Slackware. > > ktk@madmax:~$ glxgears > 10474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2094.800 FPS > 10797 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2159.400 FPS This is slower than the current DRI can do ;-) dual Athlon MP 1900+ (but all XFree and Mesa stuff is single threaded currently): Mesa/demos> ./gears r200CreateScreen 6465 frames in 5.000 seconds = 1293.000 FPS 11955 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2391.000 FPS 11954 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2390.800 FPS 11955 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2391.000 FPS 11954 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2390.800 FPS I wonder why nobody point to the place were "the real development" is? dri.sourceforge.net or the new test site (under construktion) http://lfm.sourceforge.net/dritest/ Xv is supported with the current trunk, too. If you need the video capabilities take a look at the GATOS page. http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Dieter -- Dieter N?tzel Graduate Student, Computer Science University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science @home: Dieter.Nuetzel at hamburg.de (replace at with @) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/