On 2007-03-09, Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: >> I did "eselect opengl ati", ran aticonfig, and did the setup as per >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers (including reboot and >> re-install of ati-drivers) >> >> Testing with glxgears, I get... >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ glxgears >> 7492 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1498.333 FPS >> googleearth still runs^H^H^H^H^H crawls under OpenGL. > > Yep - not that impressive, did you try the Xorg Radeon driver?
The "radeon" driver doesn't support DRI on cards that recent. > Using the same test on inferior HW (2xPIII 1.26Ghz + MSI > Radean 9550) with "radeon" driver I get: > > 8931 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1786.100 FPS That's not going to make a noticable difference. You have to have DRI to make Google Earth usable. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I request a weekend at in Havana with Phil visi.com Silvers! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list