Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 00:51, Alan Cox wrote: On Maw, 2003-11-25 at 20:26, Michel Dnzer wrote: * Our drivers do something which makes newer chips perform very poorly with PCI GART, be they AGP or PCI The former wouldn't necessarily say anything about PCI cards, but I'm not

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-26 Thread Jens David
Hi guys, On Wednesday, 26. November 2003 18:54, you wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 00:51, Alan Cox wrote: On Maw, 2003-11-25 at 20:26, Michel Dänzer wrote: * Our drivers do something which makes newer chips perform very poorly with PCI GART, be they AGP or PCI The former

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-25 Thread Ian Romanick
Roland Scheidegger wrote: I'm really not sure about this, but I believe there could be a severe performance problem when using pci radeons (at least on x86). I haven't seen any measurements of this, and few people seem to have such hardware. But by using the BusType option, I've forced pci mode

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 00:45, Roland Scheidegger wrote: Results (AXP 1600, 9000pro, 1GB sdram, KT133A Chipset): glxgears QuakeIII (1024x768, graphic options all set to high) AGP 4x 1910 62.5 AGP 1x 1860 61.1 PCI 200 16.8 I've seen similarly pathetic PCI

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-25 Thread Ian Romanick
Alan Cox wrote: On Maw, 2003-11-25 at 20:26, Michel Dnzer wrote: * Our drivers do something which makes newer chips perform very poorly with PCI GART, be they AGP or PCI The former wouldn't necessarily say anything about PCI cards, but I'm not sure how to determine which it is (and

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Ison
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:32, Ian Romanick wrote: I'm pretty sure that anything that did that for PCI would also do it for AGP. I assume that would kill performance even more, yes? Could somebody with an actual PCI card try this with ATI's driver? If the performance is okay there, that

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-25 Thread Ian Romanick
Chris Ison wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:32, Ian Romanick wrote: I'm pretty sure that anything that did that for PCI would also do it for AGP. I assume that would kill performance even more, yes? Could somebody with an actual PCI card try this with ATI's driver? If the performance is okay

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Ison
Can you try ATI's binary drivers for Linux, or are you not on x86? ATI's FireGL drivers do not support PCI cards, lord knows I tried. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Ison
Can you try ATI's binary drivers for Linux, or are you not on x86? ATI's FireGL drivers do not support PCI cards, lord knows I tried. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-24 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Chris Ison wrote: Its the same situation in GL apps (which I did mention, I only used glxgears as the prime example cause it should be heeps faster considering it doesn't do texturing). In general I agree. However, it does usefully suggest that Chris isn't getting hardware acceleration. He

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-24 Thread Chris Ison
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 09:45, Roland Scheidegger wrote: Results (AXP 1600, 9000pro, 1GB sdram, KT133A Chipset): glxgears QuakeIII (1024x768, graphic options all set to high) AGP 4x 1910 62.5 AGP 1x 1860 61.1 PCI 200 16.8 My radeon 9000 PCI (with 64megs

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-23 Thread Dieter Ntzel
First of all a big hello again...;-) Am Sonntag, 23. November 2003 15:26 schrieb Chris Ison: Its the same situation in GL apps (which I did mention, I only used glxgears as the prime example cause it should be heeps faster considering it doesn't do texturing). In general I agree. However,

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-23 Thread Chris Ison
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 23:54, Dieter Nützel wrote: What do you get with glxinfo? name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-22 Thread Jacek Popawski
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 04:55:37PM +1000, Chris Ison wrote: celeron 500 pc)and glxgears only gives me 250fps on average, and openGL IMHO glxgears should not be used as real benchmark. Try at least something with textures and any effects like fog. -- Free Software - find interesting programs

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-22 Thread Keith Whitwell
Jacek Popawski wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 04:55:37PM +1000, Chris Ison wrote: celeron 500 pc)and glxgears only gives me 250fps on average, and openGL IMHO glxgears should not be used as real benchmark. Try at least something with textures and any effects like fog. In general I agree.

Re: [Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-22 Thread Chris Ison
Its the same situation in GL apps (which I did mention, I only used glxgears as the prime example cause it should be heeps faster considering it doesn't do texturing). In general I agree. However, it does usefully suggest that Chris isn't getting hardware acceleration. He needs to find out

[Dri-devel] r200 optimization

2003-11-21 Thread Chris Ison
I am wondering if there is any env variables or host.def lines I can add that will improve performance of DRI. I have a radeon 9000 PCI (in a celeron 500 pc)and glxgears only gives me 250fps on average, and openGL applications only perform a little better than they did with the voodoo2 (in a p200