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. 

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