I just checked the logs, and there was no such message, even though what you descibed seems the most logical reason. The problem doesn't bother me (i can play games now =) ), but the fact that's its there may be of concern for others ...
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:30 pm, you wrote: > MichaelM wrote: > > Hi. > > I've recently bought an ATI radeon 9100 pro. I've installed, played > > around with it, and have noticed something strange. Though I can play 3d > > games such as UT and quake3 with excellent frame-rates, running something > > like gears will only get me 80 FPS. > > > > What's up with that? I'm currently using Xfree86 4.3.0 (compiled from > > source). I find it really odd how something as simple as complex as UT > > runs great, yet little old gears is chugging along slowly... > > Do you get any messages like "[drm] failure adding irq handler" when you > start the X server? > > That would mean that the driver has to fallback to using usleep to throttle > framerate (it's important not to let the application get ahead of the > hardware), but usleep can't sleep for less than 1/100sec, so you have a > low maximum framerate with runaway apps like gears. > > Keith ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
