Re: 3D video card recommendations

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:01 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

Mark thanks for the update.

> 
> Steven,
>   Hi . I run my ATI PCI_Express card on a 64-bit kernel. (2.6.14-rt6)
> It works fine for my needs, although as I said earlier my glxgears
> numbers are nothing to shout about:
> 
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370
> 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
> 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
> 
> mark@lightning ~ $ glxgears
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> 3170 frames in 5.0 seconds = 634.000 FPS
> 3416 frames in 5.0 seconds = 683.200 FPS
> 3294 frames in 5.0 seconds = 658.800 FPS

These aren't too shabby, but then again compared to my NVidia (non-rt
obviously) with their binary driver):

0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce
6800 GT] (rev a1)

$ glxgears
49961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9992.200 FPS
48599 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9719.800 FPS
55592 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11118.400 FPS
47395 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9479.000 FPS

What do you get with the ATI binary driver?

> 
> mark@lightning ~ $
> 
>    I'm using the radeon driver from the Xorg-X11 package. The only
> problem I've run into which remains unsolved is that when I run either
> Quicken or IE6 under Crossover Office 5.0 all of the icons in those
> windows programs show up in black and white, not color, so they are
> somewhat unreadable. Other than that no real problems.
> 

Sorry, I can't help you there. I don't have access to IE or Quicken
(well, it's on my wife's computer, but she won't let me put Linux on
it! :-(

-- Steve