On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Loren Frank wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this, but if not, please > let me know. > > I finally got my Radeon working with DRI thanks to the help of people on this > list, but, as has been reported by others, the 2D performance is lousy. > I gather that this is because the current driver contains only 3D GL > acceleration. I get only about 6M pixels / sec with drawpix (on a 1.1 GHz > Athlon), which is really pathetic considering that my laptop gives me 20M /sec. > > So ... does anyone know if a) I am doing something wrong or b) if there are > plans to included 2D GL acceleration in the near future? > > If not, can anyone recommend a card where both are supported? I need to do both > line drawing and bitmap drawing simultaneously. > > thanks, > > Loren > -- > Loren Frank > > Postdoctoral Fellow > Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory > Harvard / M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology and > Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > i had a similar problem as this using an amd athlon and thanks to the people of this list i had found that there is a problem in some of the early 2.4 kernel of linux.(assuming you are using linux) to confirm whether or not this is a problem for you do a %cat /proc/mtrr and check that the sizes reported are legitimate, you should also check out your /usr/src/linux/Documentation/mtrr.txt file. the problem is fixed in kernel 2.4.5 and later i believe. i hope this may be useful _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
