Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Helge Hafting
2005-12-12T11:58:13Z

Nix wrote:

>On 8 Dec 2005, Helge Hafting said:
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>>Lucky you. Mine doesn't. Using 3D on it makes the machine unstable,
>>and the performance is apalling too. So I'm looking for something
>>else - a radeon 7000 is cheap . . .
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>Backtraces? X version? X config?
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6.8.2 from debian testing

>(FWIW, my AGP Radeon 9250 works flawlessly as of X.org 6.8.99.901.
>6.8.2 and earlier were wobbly.)
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Time to try again then, I guess. Nice to know that something
is happening with the newer servers.

>Whether performance is appalling I don't know because I don't have any
>standards to measure it by, but I get 2000fps or thereabouts out of
>glxgears. That's a hell of a lot better than the 64fps I got out of
>my earlier mach64 :)
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I have never seen glxgears go into the thousands. The card is
obviously not supposed to be like this - either card or driver is
faulty. Most people don't seem to have performance problems,
with their radeons, so perhaps my card is a bit different and
don't fit the driver.

Helge Hafting