Re: low framerate with SiS 630 dri on Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake -- DRI and/or OpenGL not working properly?

On 9/24/06, ropers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Disclaimer: I'm really new to Linux (I have some BSD/UNIX/Win/DOS/etc.
> knowledge). It's very possible that I'm missing/screwing up some
> really basic stuff.
>
> I have problems getting DRI and/or OpenGL applications to work properly.
>
> The current Google Earth beta is doggone slow and actually crashes
> Ubuntu. The Chromium game is unplayably, horribly slow. Glxgears looks
> fairly ok, but I'm told that its framerate is inordinately slow.
>
> I have two forum threads open on this issue:
>
> One at:
>   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=262331
> (where I've pretty much logged what I've done without getting a lot of
> responses).
>
> And another at:
>   http://www.winischhofer.eu/sisforum/viewtopic.php?p=925
> where a friendly poster referred me to this mailing list.
>
> Again, my problem is sub-par performance of OpenGL/DRI related applications.
> Is there anything I can do?
>
> I know these two forum threads are long -- maybe you don't even need
> to read through them, but maybe some among you have got a suggestion
> what I could do to better diagnose and/or fix my problem?
>
> I'd be very happy to hear from you! :)

I wouldn't expect much performance from the sis hardware to begin
with.  It's old and was never a speed demon to begin with.  IIRC,
GoogleEarth has problems on a lot of drivers so it may not be specific
to your card.  How do other apps like ppracer or gears work?

Alex

>
> Thanks and regards,
> --ropers
>

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