Have you ever tried to display radeon man page? You'll see "2d only" beside most newer chips. And yes, that's current state on 7.1 Xorg.
With glxgears (being definitely non-benchmark), you can easily achieve 3000 fps with pure software rendering. I was talking about laziness in windows redrawal and so on. Firefox is especially slow, making user experience quite unnacceptable. On my IBM T41 notebook with Radeon 7500, 2D experience with radeon driver is way better - even Composition is done in hardware and at least window transparency is handled by hardware and perfectly smooth. I was very surprised to find that such old card can handle this. Cheers, Tosuja BandiPat wrote: > Then I don't believe you got something setup correctly. I've got a > 9600, 9200 & 7500 running xorg radeon drivers giving something like > 2-3000 fps easily for 3D with glxgears! At least one of those is the > 300 series you mention and I think the 9200 might be or a 280, don't > remember. I've used the ATI drivers before, but with so little > advantage it gives, I just don't go to all the trouble. YMMV > > The 9800 should be well supported as well by xorg. What version of xorg > are you using presently? If it's 6.9 or older, the support won't be as > good. -- Petr "Tosuja" Klíma Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tosuja.info ICQ: 52057532 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
