Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-24 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
John Lightsey schrieb: I gave up on specviewperf after waiting over half an hour for the Voodoo 5 to run it. It's just too time consuming. Are there one or two tests that stand out in particular? I'd propose 3dsmax-02, ugs-03 and proe-02 since in the Radeon driver comparison done by Ronald

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-23 Thread Ian Romanick
John Lightsey wrote: Once I have all the benchmarks together I'll make some pretty little graphs. Soany suggestions, comments, feedback? First off, great work! Hopefully you'll be willing to re-run those tests to look for regressions in future releases. ;) I have only two criticisms.

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-23 Thread John Lightsey
On Monday 23 August 2004 12:36, Ian Romanick wrote: John Lightsey wrote: Once I have all the benchmarks together I'll make some pretty little graphs. Soany suggestions, comments, feedback? First off, great work! Hopefully you'll be willing to re-run those tests to look for

First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread John Lightsey
This is my third attempt sending this email. If sourceforge decides to let all three copies through at once, you'll have to forgive me. A while back it was suggested that benchmarking all of the various DRI-compatible video cards might provide some interesting information. I just finished my

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Adam Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 August 2004 02:16, John Lightsey wrote: At any rate, here are the results of the first run. If anyone has suggestions for fixing any of the cards which failed in one way or another, I would really appreciate the feedback. Awesome

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Michael Mazack
Diamond Speedstar a90 16MB (savage 4 pro+) Lots of lockups. I can confirm that this card locks up very frequently. One way which I have found to immediately lock it up is by attempting to use GL_NV_texgen_reflection. Hope this helps the savage developers.

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Steffen Hein
On Sunday 22 August 2004 08:16, John Lightsey wrote: Rage 128 Pro (r128) At 640x480 this one seemed semi-reliable. At 1024x768 it usually froze. glxgears gave this one 518.6 fps. I also encountered this instability on a mobility M6 (mobile Rage128)

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Felix Kühling
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:16:18 -0500 John Lightsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Diamond Speedstar a90 16MB (savage 4 pro+) Lots of lockups. glxgears gave this a disappointing 229 fps. There are rumors about some Savage4's that lock up when reading the status register. :-/ A workaround would be

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
On 22.08.2004, at 08:16, John Lightsey wrote: glxgears - let it run for 1 minute then marked down the highest score how reproducable and meaningful is a highest score? I don't know, but I got a feeling that using a mean or a median might be of better reproducability and also might better reflect

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread John Lightsey
On Sunday 22 August 2004 04:57, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: On 22.08.2004, at 08:16, John Lightsey wrote: glxgears - let it run for 1 minute then marked down the highest score how reproducable and meaningful is a highest score? I don't know, but I got a feeling that using a mean or a

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread John Lightsey
On Sunday 22 August 2004 04:59, Felix Kühling wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:16:18 -0500 John Lightsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Diamond Speedstar a90 16MB (savage 4 pro+) Lots of lockups. glxgears gave this a disappointing 229 fps. There are rumors about some Savage4's that lock up when

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2004-08-22 at 07:16, John Lightsey wrote: I shut off most of the services on the machine. rcconf shows klogd, makedev, and sysklogd as the only services active at boot. The kernel used was 2.6.7-1-k7 from Debian. Which DRI kernel modules - the CVS tree provided ones or the 2.6.7

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Dave Airlie
Which DRI kernel modules - the CVS tree provided ones or the 2.6.7 kernel ones ? there should be no regression between them, I'd expect the currrnt CVS ones might in theory be slower than 2.6.7 but I haven't seen any regressions on the radeon modules while I've been doing the function table

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2004-08-22 at 13:11, Dave Airlie wrote: there should be no regression between them, I'd expect the currrnt CVS ones might in theory be slower than 2.6.7 but I haven't seen any regressions on the radeon modules while I've been doing the function table work, 2.6.7 is pretty close to CVS

First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread John Lightsey
A while back it was suggested that benchmarking all of the various DRI-compatible video cards might provide some interesting information. I just finished my first attempt at performing a slew of benchmarks with this goal, and the results haven't been great. It's certainly possible that (a)

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread John Lightsey
On Sunday 22 August 2004 01:52, Adam Jackson wrote: On Sunday 22 August 2004 02:16, John Lightsey wrote: At any rate, here are the results of the first run. If anyone has suggestions for fixing any of the cards which failed in one way or another, I would really appreciate the feedback.

First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread John Lightsey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I sent this message earlier, but it doesn't seem to have made it through. Subject: First DRI uber-benchmark Date: Saturday 21 August 2004 13:17 From: John Lightsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A while back it was suggested

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 11:40 +0200, Steffen Hein wrote: On Sunday 22 August 2004 08:16, John Lightsey wrote: Rage 128 Pro (r128) At 640x480 this one seemed semi-reliable. At 1024x768 it usually froze. glxgears gave this one 518.6 fps. I also encountered this instability on a mobility M6

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 01:16 -0500, John Lightsey wrote: This is my third attempt sending this email. If sourceforge decides to let all three copies through at once, you'll have to forgive me. It's mostly me administrating the dri-{announce,devel,patches} at the moment... if anyone (preferably

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread John Lightsey
On Sunday 22 August 2004 05:39, Alan Cox wrote: On Sul, 2004-08-22 at 07:16, John Lightsey wrote: I shut off most of the services on the machine. rcconf shows klogd, makedev, and sysklogd as the only services active at boot. The kernel used was 2.6.7-1-k7 from Debian. Which DRI kernel

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Steffen Hein
You're right. It's a 8mb mobility M3 in a dell latitude c600. Sorry, not my notebook ;-) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread John Lightsey
Here are the FGLRX and Nvidia scores for comparison... The Nvidia drivers were built from the packages in Debian non-free (1.0.6111) and the FGLRX drivers were built from Flavio Stanchina's packages (3.11.1). BFG FX5200 Ultra 128MB glxgears - 3934.8 q2 640x480 - 337.1 q2 800x600 - 312.3 q2

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In gmane.comp.video.dri.devel, you wrote: I looked around for some free software programs that would calculate an average framerate rather than simply showing a FPS counter, but I didn't find any. Something based on crystal-space would be particularly nice. Have a look at the samples

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2004-08-22 at 21:51, John Lightsey wrote: So... A Radeon DDR 32MB running DRI seems to be faster than a TNT2 32MB. Matrox G400 seems to be faster on everything other than Unreal Tournament. I'll send a link to the graphs on Monday. Maybe I should get the Voodoo2 DRI written. The

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Dave Airlie
At least on the fedora-test list the new Xorg CVS seems to be showing up some i815/830 works with 2.6.8.1 but not 2.6.old kernels. hmm interesting.. I'll try and get Xorg on one of my i810 systems in the next day or two... Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:16:18AM -0500, John Lightsey wrote: Matrox G400 32MB (mga) glxgears - 1000.2 q2 640x480 - 62.9 q2 800x600 - 52.3 q2 1024x768 - 40.2 q3 640x480 - 65.9 q3 800x600 - 51.4 q3 1024x768 - 36.4 rtcw 640x480 - 42.3 rtcw 800x600 - 33.5 rtcw 1024x768 - 24.7 ut

Re: First DRI uber-benchmark

2004-08-22 Thread John Lightsey
On Sunday 22 August 2004 18:37, Ville Syrjälä wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:16:18AM -0500, John Lightsey wrote: Matrox G400 32MB (mga) ... I'm aware of two perfomance bottlenecks in the driver. Number one is that it always uses synchronous DMA. I have asynchronous DMA working just fine