On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 06:27 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 23 October 2004 02:49, Greg Wildman wrote: > >On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 12:05 +0100, VJ wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I used to get 650FPS with glxgears before I added this option > >> (at the end ofthis mail ) to my xorg.conf. Now I get 1100FPS. Is > >> it true that this option increased the FPS of my card? I am using > >> "ATI Rage 128 Pro" as video card. Is glxgears reliable for such > >> tests? > >> > >> Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" > > > >Thanks for the tip. I have an ATI Radeon 9200 and I am running the > >standard Xorg driver on FC2. > > > >My FPS was around 450 with the cog's turning very very slowly. If I > > put a terminal window over the glxgears windows then it shot up to > > 4500 FPS. Not that that helps much. :-) > > > >I put in the setting you suggested and bingo, my FPS is now at 650. > > The desktop also got a lot quicker, especially switching between > > virtual desktops. > > > What 'section' of the xorg.conf file did you put that in? I tried it > in the "Device' section, no errors, and slowed me by 5 fps. My xorg.conf looks like so: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI" BoardName "Radeon 9200" BusID "1:5:0" Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" EndSection output of lspci: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device 4018 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 01:05.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (Secondary) (rev 01) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device 4019 Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] Memory at e9010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 -- Greg