On Thursday 11 February 2010 12:38:38 Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > How well is radeonhd's 3D accelleration expected to work in Fedora 11? > > My box at work and my box at home are both Core 2 Quad Xeons. The idea of 2D and 3D acceleration is to take the load off the processor. So you should not expect the performance of accelerated graphics to depend on the CPU model. Not too much, anyway. > lsmod shows that it's using the "nvidia" driver. Is that the > closed-source driver? Yes. > However while the nVideo card at work can run glxgears at a frame rate > of 5000 FPS, my Radeon can only do 300! The glxgears utility is not a good benchmark. Better try out some real life stuff like quake3, nexuiz, extremetuxracer, or such. :-) Or those more dull things like googleearth and compiz (if your reflexes are too bad for gaming). > Is there something I can tweak to get faster 3D, or is this the > expected performance for the current radeonhd driver? Is 3D actually turned on? You can have both hardware and drivers which support 3D, but have xorg.conf that disables it, or something like that. You can check for direct rendering like this: glxinfo | grep direct If it says "yes", then all should be well. :-) There are probably some tools out there which measure frame rate and do proper serious benchmarking, but I don't know any. HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
