Re: Radeon M6 LY

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 02:28, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote:
> I get about 200 here on average :/
> 
> I am not sure how to test opengl vs non. I did test quake3 though. With 
> all the settings to max at 1024 x 768 I get about 30 FPS. On Linux I can 
> not even max the settings thus I was not able to compare. I wonder how 
> much longer ATI/XFree or whomever makes the linux drivers will hold out 
> on this chipset. I know the M6 has been around for more than 1.5 years now.

I don't know.  I really hope that it's soon.  I know that on my laptop
that when I've got it running at full resolution (1400x1050 @ 24 bit)
the DRI doesn't startup and therefore it won't get any hardware
acceleration at all for OpenGL.

Lower bit depths are of course lower and I do some (not a lot) but some
graphics work on the system and can't stand anything less than 24 if
there is no compelling reason.

One the flip side the XiGraphics X engine does drive it at full
acceleration at full resolution, but I personally run into other issues
from my not so standard to them configuration(s) that I put my laptop
into.  Besides if I'm not using XFree then I can't use fun programs like
MPlayer or similar that rely on XFree hooks that aren't part of the
defined X standard *sigh*.

Has anyone tried to use the ati.2 drivers from the Gatos project? 
Supposedly they are better, but as they aren't in any of the install
packages and I don't want to try and beat them into working I haven't
tried.

-Andy-