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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:31:35 -0800
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: 3D video card recommendations
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On 11/7/05, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:01 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> Mark thanks for the update.
>
> >
> > Steven,
> >   Hi . I run my ATI PCI_Express card on a 64-bit kernel. (2.6.14-rt6)
> > It works fine for my needs, although as I said earlier my glxgears
> > numbers are nothing to shout about:
> >
> > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370
> > 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
> > 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
> >
> > mark@lightning ~ $ glxgears
> > Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> > 3170 frames in 5.0 seconds = 634.000 FPS
> > 3416 frames in 5.0 seconds = 683.200 FPS
> > 3294 frames in 5.0 seconds = 658.800 FPS
>
> These aren't too shabby, but then again compared to my NVidia (non-rt
> obviously) with their binary driver):
>
> 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce
> 6800 GT] (rev a1)
>
> $ glxgears
> 49961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9992.200 FPS
> 48599 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9719.800 FPS
> 55592 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11118.400 FPS
> 47395 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9479.000 FPS
>
> What do you get with the ATI binary driver?

Last time I tried (circa 2.6.14-rc3-rtX) it didn't load correctly.
Note that this was the ati-drivers package from portage and not an ATI
driver package from ATI so possibly that was part of the problem.

I should probably try again one of these days but high speed graphics
are not an issue for me on this machine. It's used for audio work
mostly.

Cheers,
Mark
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