[ltp] re: 2.6.1 + 3d acceleration

[Bruce R'. Miller]

>Hmm, here 1500fps as with 2.4 before. (A31p ATI 7800 FireGL)

$ glxgears
unknown chip id, assuming full radeon support
9078 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1815.600 FPS
9116 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1823.200 FPS
9110 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1822.000 FPS
9116 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1823.200 FPS

Linux 2.6.3, with AGP/ATI&Intel, DRI/ATI&Intel.  And the SGI OpenGL that came 
with Redhat 9.0, instead of Mesa.

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Mobility FireGL 7800"
        Option  "NoDDC"
        Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
#       Option "AGPFastWrite" "on"
        Option "AGPMode" "2"
#       Option  "ForcePCIMode"
EndSection



>But my xv performance is bad now. X uses ~60% CPU watching a dvd with 
>xine, mplayer and so on. With 2.4 it uses 15%.
>
>What's going wrong?

I read something about an incomplete cp implementation in the latest radeon 
driver causing 2d performance to suffer when DRI was enabled.

-b