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Old Jan 18, 2005, 09:34 PM   #163
mtippett
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Originally Posted by svu
So, one by one:
- No XRANDR extension detected. And no information whether/when it is going to be there.
- xorg driver gave me 2020fps on my Radeon Mobility 9000 (standard 2.6.9 kernel and xorg from FC3 distro). The new ATI driver gives about 1500. Is this fair??? Is there something to twek (I could not find in the docs)
RANDR _does_ work, you must disable DGA for it to work. I have been using it since at least the 3.7 days.

Now can everybody repeat after me, 'The fps value from glxgears carries NO relevance for anything beyond verifying hardware acceleration. Period.'

I am willing to be enlightened, but it is such a simple application that it shouldn't be used used for comparison between driver releases - let alone between implementations. Use a real benchmark if you want to complain.

Of course, if ATI tuned the drivers to give an amazingly high glxgears fps, then I don't think anybody would be impressed.
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