On Tuesday 24 June 2008 22:42:44 you wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 June 2008 20:32:34 Corbin Simpson wrote: > >> Alberto Hernando wrote: > >> > El Lunes, 23 de Junio de 2008 06:02, Alex Deucher escribió: > >> >> IIRC the gl requirements of the mplayer gl output are probably more > >> >> than the r128 3D engine can handle without software fallbacks, and > >> >> I'd imaging you are hitting quite a few. > >> > > >> > Hi. > >> > > >> > If this is so, considering that glxgears asks for a lot of cpu too... > >> > does it mean that the driver lacks a few features? > >> > OTOH, I've built the same in another box. It's one with and igp9100 > >> > chipset. And I get more or less the same: glxgears not too fast (I > >> > don't have numbers, sorry) but also asking for a lot of cpu. That one > >> > is ati-6.8.191. But in this case what I really want is tv-out, so I > >> > don't care much. > >> > >> Gears Is Not A Benchmark. :3 > >> > >> mplayer -vo gl is slow for a handful of reasons; typically, mplayer -vo > >> gl2 will be much faster. I don't know which one will perform better on > >> the r1xx series; it's entirely possible that both of them require > >> features that the r1xx just doesn't support. > >> > >> However, on Radeons, Xv is always going to be fastest because it uses 3D > >> engine code directly, without going through DRI, and it should be quite > >> suitable for your needs. > > > > Xv is best on Rage 128 too. Last time I tried it, there was a problem > > with 16MB card - Xv acceleration didn't work when DRI was enabled - > > looked like driver limitation. > > Depends on the size of your screen. Currently the front, back, and > depth buffers are statically allocated when the DRI is active so that > doesn't leave much ram left over for things like Xv.
That was at 1280x1024. I had to change the card because of this. Is that limitation of the driver? Is a "memory manager" (like TTM) going to fix problems like this one? (I hate to change hardware because of a software problems.) > > Alex -- Ondrej Zary _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
