On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 08:47 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Kristoffer wrote: > > > I'm thinking of trying the radeon driver again, but i'm wondering > > wether or not it will ever catch up with the fglrx driver on speed? > > You worry about speed, I wonder if it ever will catch up with software > rendering on stability. Graphichs acceleration, (and the occational > prerelease kernel) is the only that ever crash my machines. And yes, > I use sw rendering on any machine that have an occational hang. > > In either case, blame it on lack of documentation.
I'll agree that this explains some stability issues, but IME performance is usually more a matter of the engineering effort spent on driver optimizations that aren't necessarily hardware specific. YMMV. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
