[ltp] X Acceleration again

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:00:56 +0100


On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:49:17 +0100, Arno Willig wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I tried the ATI driver on my T40p with XFree 4.3 (Debian/experimental).
> For that I built a
> fglrx-4.3.0-kernel-2.4.22_3.2.8-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
> 
> Now I get the following benchmarks with glxgears:
> 8358 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1671.600 FPS
> 8367 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1673.400 FPS
> 8287 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1657.400 FPS
> 739 frames in 5.0 seconds = 147.800 FPS <-- switched to fullscreen
> 740 frames in 5.0 seconds = 148.000 FPS
> 
> This still seems to be a little bit slow for the FireGL card.
> Does anybody get better values?
> 
> Ciao, Arno

Maybe the window is too big for hardware acceleration in fullscreen
mode. You could try to use 16 bit colour depth (if you don't use it
already).

Regards,
Tino