On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Don Levey wrote: > fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 22:56, Don Levey wrote: > >> I've been looking for performance tweaks, as certain things seem a > >> bit slow, such as I/O and display. I had gotten a hot display card, > >> for example, from ATI on the basis of their having Linux drivers - > >> only to find that those drivers are... incomplete. I was hoping to > >> make up some speed at disk level. Oh well. > >> Thanks again, > >> -Don > > > > My laptop has a Radeon Mobility 7500. With glxgears I get an average > > of 1036.400 FPS running in 16bit mode. My desktop has a decent > > Gefore 3 Ti 500 and I get about 3,200 FPS with glxgears. > > > > Run glxgears for about 20 seconds to see what kind of FPS you get. Do > > not resize the window, leave it at the default. You could also try to > > run glgears in 16bit mode by chaning the DefaultDepth in your "Screen" > > section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. > > > > Unfortunately, I've got the Radeon 9600 Pro, which apparently doesn't offer > 3D support in Linux. My output from glxgears averages around 95-100 fps. I > haven't tried at 16-bit depth yet. your best bet is ati's proprietary driver... or an older slower card. > -Don > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
