On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:01:05PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
* Marc MERLIN (marc@merlins.org) wrote:
|> Using radeon instead works, but is pretty slow for 3d: |> 1613fps glxgears, 14fps lavalite, and google earth takes 5mn to zoom on a |> spot. |> |> Is that expected?
I wouldn't have said so. I have left unsolved the issue you raised earlier, i.e. this one:
|> > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so failed |> > (/usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so: undefined symbol: glapi_tls_Context) |> > (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
that was due to having the wrong /usr/lib/libGL.so (the one from fglrx).
So I have only software rendering. Nevertheless, glxgears shows:
9827 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1965.287 FPS 10059 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2011.782 FPS
and google-earth is very agile. I update the drm kernel modules from
Ok, so considering my hw rendering is so slow, should I just replace /usr/lib/libGL.so with some software rendering one from libmesa? (not too sure how to do that yet, but I could look it up). igh tnow, I do have: gandalf:~$ LIBGL_DEBUG=yes glxinfo 2>/dev/null | grep direct direct rendering: Yes
the git repository at freedesktop.org fairly regularly (using Tormod Volden's easy-drm-modules-installer script), and I noticed that the most recent update produced a significant improvement in performance. I think you probably know about this script already, but in case you don't, it's here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/xorg-server/xorg-pkg-tools/files
I haven't done this yet since very recent radeonhd seems to crash my machine (hard hang) after I exit a 3d app (only radeon is stable but very slow). I can try building a newer one though.
In my case the modules are compiled against the 2.6.26.2 kernel (which might, I suppose, make a difference),
I'm hoping having 2.6.27.7 doesn't set me back :) Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org