[ltp] 2.6.1 + 3d acceleration

[d.lj]

hi.
after playing around with all this i noticed the following resp. found
two ways (i  guess there are more) of getting it up with slight
differences in performance and stability, all this on debian:

1)
using xlibmesa-gl1-drm-trunk
from
deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ ./

with this i get ~850 fps with glxgears

i also installed the drm-trunk-module-src package and compiled
the radeon.ko from there, which i m also using in the 2nd method.

i guess the need for this module is the reason why you have to compile
the standard kernel dri driver for the radeon as a module so it can be
replaced.

anyway, awakening from suspend works fine here.

2)
installing xserver-xfree86/experimental, xlibmesa-gl,
xlibmesa-dri from
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
(use any mirror)

and creating this file fwiw beforehand
root@tp:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental,s=x11
Pin-Priority: 995

with the radeon_dri.so from this package i get a good 900 fps in
glxgears _but_ resume apparently doesnt work.


i arrived at these after clicking a couple of linuxonthinkppad pages
(A31p and R40) and the dri.sf.net site. everythings not quite clear e.g.
i couldnt yet figure out how to build stuff directly from dri.sf.net
source.

j,j

[Jericho Gutierrez]->[RE: [ltp] 2.6.1 + 3d acceleration]->[04-02-03 16:44]

 |You need to compile support for the ATI chipset.  It's right under the
 |section for AGP support, (Device drivers --> Character devices).
 |
 |
 |-----Original Message-----
 |From: Simon Wong [mailto:linux@thoughtworx.com]
 |Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:26 PM
 |To: Linux Thinkpad List
 |Subject: Re: [ltp] 2.6.1 + 3d acceleration
 |
 |
 |On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 01:46, Robert Svoboda wrote:
 |> Note, that 3D performance went up remarkably for me with
 |> 2.6 kernel.  I have R40 with ATI 7500, with 2.4 I got some
 |> 700+ fps in glxgears, now I'm running at 1100+, great...
 |
 |Are you kidding?!?!?
 |
 |        $ glxgears
 |        2464 frames in 5.0 seconds = 492.800 FPS
 |        2609 frames in 5.0 seconds = 521.800 FPS
 |        2692 frames in 5.0 seconds = 538.400 FPS
 |        2689 frames in 5.0 seconds = 537.800 FPS
 |
 |:-(
 |
 |Kernel 2.6.1-mm3 with config:
 |
 |        CONFIG_AGP=y
 |        # CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set
 |        # CONFIG_AGP_ATI is not set
 |        # CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set
 |        # CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 is not set
 |        CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y
 |        # CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA is not set
 |        # CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
 |        # CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set
 |        # CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set
 |        CONFIG_DRM=y
 |        # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set
 |        # CONFIG_DRM_GAMMA is not set
 |        # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set
 |        CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y
 |        # CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set
 |        # CONFIG_DRM_I830 is not set
 |        # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set
 |        # CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set
 |
 |I installed Xfree86 4.3.99.902 from the Xinstall.sh script from XFree86
 |site.
 |
 |I might try X4.3 from experimental if I can work out a clean way to
 |clean out what the install script installed...
 |
 |I wonder why the dramatic difference?!
 |
 |
 |

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