Slow glxgears and ATI 3.9.0 driver

Mateusz G Matysekg at poczta.ksk.net.pl
Sat Jun 5 16:21:22 UTC 2004


Dnia Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:12:58 -0600, Jason Salaz 
<whatsizbucket at comcast.net> napisał:

> I have horribly slow glxgears after installing the new ATI driver.  I
> have an nForce2 MSI K7N2 Delta-L motherboard, and all the trimmings.
>
> Under FC1, I just installed the driver and away I go.  With FC2 I have
> to compile the drivers for compatibility.  Anyways.. I've done all that,
> but my FPS rate when running glxgears is like...
>
> 1310 frames in 5.0 seconds = 262.000 FPS
> 1200 frames in 5.0 seconds = 240.000 FPS
> 1320 frames in 5.0 seconds = 264.000 FPS
> 1440 frames in 5.0 seconds = 288.000 FPS
> 1320 frames in 5.0 seconds = 264.000 FPS
> 1320 frames in 5.0 seconds = 264.000 FPS
>
> And the like... from other people on this list, they are getting 4500
> FPS and all that.  Rebuff these amounts for me, because part of me
> thinks that those numbers (4500's) aren't true, unless they've reduced
> the window size..

Hello
These are normal values. Check glxinfo (AFAIR), 99% you have direct 
rendering: no..
With FC1 I had similiar problem untill I've changed something in agp_be.c 
(or something) and compiled. But that was the KT600 specific problem.. 
Check output from compiling driver, there may be an answer..





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