[ltp] t40p: driver ATI rocks!

Greg Meyer linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:35:42 -0400


On Monday 23 August 2004 08:10 pm, zb wrote:
> hello,
>
> sorry if someone else already mentioned this.
>
> i must have been living under a rock or something. i
> was bored and i decided to check for new a ati driver.
> looks like ATI now support the mobility firegl 9000
> and this is what i get:
>
>
> [rc@localhost rc]$ glxgears
> 6457 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1291.400 FPS
> 7644 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1528.800 FPS

Some more good news, the open-source driver in xorg 6.7 gives me 1150fps in 
glxgears.  Not the numbers you got from the ATI drivers, but much better than 
the 500fps I used to get with XFree 4.3 and good enough for my needs.  It 
will prevent me from having to monkey with them anymore.
-- 
/g