[ltp] Any hope for Radeon M6 LY?

Charles E Taylor IV linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:46:02 -0500


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:09:01 +0100
Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de> wrote:

> But 360 is lousy even for a M6 LY. The one in my A30 is as twice as
> fast with glxgears and standard window size.
 
> Did you check if glxgears shows direct rendering? What resolution do
> you use? What colour depth? How much video memory? 16 MB memory wasn't
> enough for 24 bit colour depth with 1400x1050, I had to downgrade to 16
> bit depth to get hardware GL.

The original poster's numbers aren't far off from the mark on my X22. 
Glxgears here gives (default window size, 1024x768 16-bit color depth) an
average of 386 FPS, which is also slower than I'd hoped when getting this
laptop.  Direct rendering appears to be enabled.


[tomalek@romulus ~]$ /sbin/lspci |grep ATI
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6
LY

[tomalek@romulus ~]$ glxinfo |more
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, 
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read,     GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory, 
    GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
    GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
    GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_swap_control, 
    GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_video_sync, 
   GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20030328 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE NO-TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 6.1
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture, 
    GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, 
    GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, 
    GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, 
    GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, 
    GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
GL_EXT_convolution,     GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements,
GL_EXT_histogram,     GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset,
GL_EXT_rescale_normal,     GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_subtexture,     GL_EXT_texture,
GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,     GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,     GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,     GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp,     GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array,     GL_APPLE_packed_pixels,
GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, 
    GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, 
    GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture,
GL_MESA_window_pos,     GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_light_max_exponent,
GL_NV_texture_rectangle,     GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_SGI_color_matrix,
GL_SGI_color_table,     GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap,
GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,     GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_lod glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
    GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 16 tc  0 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x24 16 tc  0 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 Slow
0x25 16 tc  0 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0 16 16 16  0  0 0 Slow
0x26 16 tc  0 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 Slow
0x27 16 tc  0 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x28 16 tc  0 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 Slow
0x29 16 tc  0 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0 16 16 16  0  0 0 Slow
0x2a 16 tc  0 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 Slow
0x2b 16 dc  0 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x2c 16 dc  0 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 Slow
0x2d 16 dc  0 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0 16 16 16  0  0 0 Slow
0x2e 16 dc  0 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 Slow
0x2f 16 dc  0 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x30 16 dc  0 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 Slow
0x31 16 dc  0 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0 16 16 16  0  0 0 Slow
0x32 16 dc  0 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 Slow

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