How reliable are glxgears statistics? My FPS increased from 650 to 1100 by using Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" in xorg.conf!!!

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 06:00, Greg Wildman wrote:
>On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 06:27 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 23 October 2004 02:49, Greg Wildman wrote:
>> >On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 12:05 +0100, VJ wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>     I used to get 650FPS with glxgears before I added this
>> >> option (at the end ofthis mail ) to my xorg.conf. Now I get
>> >> 1100FPS. Is it true that this option increased the FPS of my
>> >> card? I am using "ATI Rage 128 Pro" as video card. Is glxgears
>> >> reliable for such tests?
>> >>
>> >> Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
>> >
>> >Thanks for the tip. I have an ATI Radeon 9200 and I am running
>> > the standard Xorg driver on FC2.
>> >
>> >My FPS was around 450 with the cog's turning very very slowly. If
>> > I put a terminal window over the glxgears windows then it shot
>> > up to 4500 FPS. Not that that helps much. :-)
>> >
>> >I put in the setting you suggested and bingo, my FPS is now at
>> > 650. The desktop also got a lot quicker, especially switching
>> > between virtual desktops.
>>
>> What 'section' of the xorg.conf file did you put that in?  I tried
>> it in the "Device' section, no errors, and slowed me by 5 fps.
>
>My xorg.conf looks like so:
>
>Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Videocard0"
>        Driver      "radeon"
>        VendorName  "ATI"
>        BoardName   "Radeon 9200"
>        BusID       "1:5:0"
>        Option      "EnablePageFlip" "true" <- 198fps->820fps
Many Thanks(tm), that helped a whole bunch as you can see above.  I 
didn't put the BusID in as its had no trouble finding it at 02:00:0
>EndSection
>
>
>output of lspci:
>
>01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280
> [Radeon 9200] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device 4018
>        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
>        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
>        I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
>        Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>
>01:05.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200]
>(Secondary) (rev 01)
>        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device 4019
>        Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
>        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled]
>        Memory at e9010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
>[size=64K]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>
This is a different card from mine however:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 
9200 SE] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 7c13
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
        I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
        Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 
SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
        Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 7c12
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled]
        Memory at da010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] 
[size=64K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

I wish there were some way to punish card makers who plaster the ATI 
logo all over the flippin box when its NOT an ATI reference design 
and 100% ATI chipset in the box.  Fscking jerks.

However, venting about cheap cardmakers aside, this is a major 
improvement, many thanks again Greg.

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