On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Mitchell Velasquez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Im using a ATI Radeon X1200 (RS690) with the driver radeon. I have > updated my xserver-xorg, the xserver-xorg-ati, xserver-xorg-radeon, xserver- > xorg-radeonhd to the ones from jaunty, so my system is intrepid with xserver > from jaunty. That only because i want to have the latest release of open > source drivers (radeon or radeonhd) to make my card work. Testing the radeon > driver, the performance is better than fglrx wich reached 220 FPS with > glxgears, and now it shows 380 FPS with radeon driver, but from time to time > there is some flickering in the whole screen that makes appear as if the x- > server were going to crash. That lasts only a little fraction of a second and > it does not happen frecuently. That behavior is continuous with the radeon > driver distributed with intrepid, so i think it has been improved in > performance and stability. I attached my x.log and my xorg.conf. How can I > improve the performance even more? because with that FPS I can't run compiz. > P.D. I think it has something to do with ubuntu because with debian lenny and > latest fglrx I got 800 FPS, and i was able to run compiz flawlessly.
glxgears is not a benchmark. compiz should work fine on the rs690. As to the flickering, try: Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH" in the device section of your config and see if that helps. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
