[ltp] t40p: driver ATI rocks!

[Hamie]

Greg Meyer wrote:

>On Monday 23 August 2004 08:10 pm, zb wrote:
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>>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:
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>>[rc@localhost rc]$ glxgears
>>6457 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1291.400 FPS
>>7644 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1528.800 FPS
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>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.
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Ah... Not a fireGL-T2 chipset then? My r50p gets me

hamish@ballbreaker:~$ glxgears
792 frames in 5.0 seconds = 158.400 FPS
875 frames in 5.0 seconds = 175.000 FPS

Using the x.org 6.7 radeon drivers... Pretty pathetic next to the ATI 
drivers (I get several thousand there :), but at least I can suspend...