Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750894AbVLLL6N (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:58:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751242AbVLLL6N (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:58:13 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:50307 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750894AbVLLL6M (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:58:12 -0500 Message-ID: <439D66AF.3010801@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:01:51 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nix CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1133807641.9356.50.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4395BBDB.307@ti-wmc.nl> <200512061850.20169.luke-jr@utopios.org> <4397EB7A.7030404@aitel.hist.no> <87hd9jvgvz.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> In-Reply-To: <87hd9jvgvz.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1292 Lines: 42 Nix wrote: >On 8 Dec 2005, Helge Hafting said: > > >>Lucky you. Mine doesn't. Using 3D on it makes the machine unstable, >>and the performance is apalling too. So I'm looking for something >>else - a radeon 7000 is cheap . . . >> >> > >Backtraces? X version? X config? > > 6.8.2 from debian testing >(FWIW, my AGP Radeon 9250 works flawlessly as of X.org 6.8.99.901. >6.8.2 and earlier were wobbly.) > > Time to try again then, I guess. Nice to know that something is happening with the newer servers. >Whether performance is appalling I don't know because I don't have any >standards to measure it by, but I get 2000fps or thereabouts out of >glxgears. That's a hell of a lot better than the 64fps I got out of >my earlier mach64 :) > > I have never seen glxgears go into the thousands. The card is obviously not supposed to be like this - either card or driver is faulty. Most people don't seem to have performance problems, with their radeons, so perhaps my card is a bit different and don't fit the driver. Helge Hafting - 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/