On Son, 2002-12-15 at 09:25, Nick Kurshev wrote: 
> 
> I've found out the strange things in DRI-CVS!
> My regular upgrade of Xfree86 and DRI looks like this:
> 1. I do checkout of both Xfree86-CVS and DRI-CVS
> 2. After installing and executing of Xfree86-CVS - glxgears shows me 430 FPS
> 3. After installing and execuring of DRI-CVS - glxgears shwos me 420 FPS
> 4. After reboot DRI-CVS shows me 360 FPS only!

Have you verified that direct rendering is used in all cases?

> It seems that DRI-CVS doesn't configure some registers or
> something similar. Means that before reboot - DRI works with
> hardware which was configured by Xfree86 drivers but
> after reboot it is not able to configure video card properly.
> 
> I've attached 3 dumps of Radeon's registers. These dump were generated
> with using of slightly modified by me 'gfxdump' utility from "old-gatos"
> CVS (at linuxvideo.org).
> 
> Could please someone to investigate this problem?

I investigated the three dumps with meld and none of the registers that
differ seem performance critical to me.

Someone asked a similar question on the Xpert list lately, and it turned
out to be a BIOS feature to regulate system performance, could it be
something like that?


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast


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