[ltp] T40p radeon or fglrx

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:42:20 +0200


On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 21:35:16 +0200, Hartwig, Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
> Tino Keitel wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 13:49:20 +0200, Hartwig, Thomas wrote:
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >>Now the facts:
> >>
> >>I'm running glxgears with default windows size at around 1480
> >>FPS!!! If I compare to:
> >>
> >>http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html
> >>(section: 7. Working setups)
> >>
> >>The difference is amazing.
> >
> >
> >Maybe it's not that amazing anymore if you read the footnote for the
> >FPS column:
> >
> >"FPS as reported by fgl_glxgears at default window size."
> 
> Yes, very imprecise indeed. I have resized my window to 10x10, to get
> my FPS ;-) SCNR
> 
> So what is the default size??? For mine it is 300x300, what is it for
> fgl_glxgears?!

Just use fgl_glxgears and don't care about the window size. If you use
glxgears and compare the numbers with the numbers from fgl_glxgears
from the web site, you compare apples and pears, because fgl_glxgears
uses other and more complex graphics objects for rendering.

Regards,
Tino