On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > <SNIP> >>> c2stable linux # emerge -pv xorg-server xorg-drivers xf86-video-ati >>> xf86-video-fbdev xf86-video-vesa mesa >>> >>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >>> >>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>> [ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-7.9 USE="classic gallium nptl -debug >>> -gles -llvm -motif -pic (-selinux)" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vmware -intel >>> -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r128 -savage -sis -tdfx -via" 0 kB >>> [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2 USE="nptl udev xorg -dmx >>> -doc -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -static-libs -tslib" 5,151 kB >>> [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.2 0 kB >> >> 6.13.2 is too old. you need git master for accel support on evergreen. >> >> Alex >> > > Ah, OK - I'll investigate how to do that under Gentoo. I've never ever > used a git driver before and 6.13.2 is the latest thing in portage. > > Is by chance a new release of xf86-video-ati imminent? I could > certainly wait a week or two for this if something is due out soon. If > it's going to be longer then I'd like to figure out how to get it onto > the system now. > > Cheers, > Mark >
Thanks Alex! The Gentoo 'x11' overlay apparently gets it's code from git and using that with no other updates I find that 3d rendering is now enabled: mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep render [ 18.780] (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled Now, I know glxgears is frowned upon as a benchmark but my FPS didn't change with this driver. Should I have expected it to get any better? mark@c2stable ~ $ glxgears 939 frames in 5.0 seconds = 187.788 FPS 984 frames in 5.0 seconds = 196.753 FPS 959 frames in 5.0 seconds = 191.634 FPS 979 frames in 5.0 seconds = 195.707 FPS ^C mark@c2stable ~ $ If it matters I haven't updated anything except xf86-video-ati. If I need newer X11, mesa, whatever, please let me know. Also, what sort of benchmarks can I run, or what program could I just use, to demonstrate that 3d accelleration is actually working? Can you point me toward some nice looking 3d demos or something that I might use to understand how well this is working? Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
