Re: Radeon M6 LY

I would bet that support will be good in the 2.6 kernel. I have a M7
mobile and get over 1k fps on glxgears. I had to compile both agpgart
and radeon drm into the kernel.

greg


On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 08:40, Andy Grimberg wrote:
> 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-
> 
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