I have the same card and use some other git versions, like mesa etc.
But I can't tell you the fps rate from glxgears, because I have vertical sync enabled (seems to be default?!) and I have no idea how to disable it. So I'm getting 60fps all the time :) Regards, Felix On 20. January 2011 - 08:49, Mark Knecht wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:49:03 -0800 > From: Mark Knecht <[email protected]> > To: Alex Deucher <[email protected]> > Cc: Felix Blanke <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: Help with HD 5750 3D accel? > > 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 ---end quoted text--- _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
