3D acceleration testings
Joel CARNAT <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:15:34 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.performance |
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| Organization | TuMFatig network |
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Hi, I'm trying to understand if NetBSD (3.0) has video 3D acceleration (on some video cards) or not. Here's the summary of a few testings I've done : *** This is a reference "working" workstation *** AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2Ghz) / 512Mo RAM nVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 (64Mo) Linux 2.6.12 Xorg 6.8.2 / nVIDIA drivers 1.0.8178 / 1280x1024x24 GLXGears = 827FPS XscreenSaver/Atlantis = 35FPS (GL), 35FPS (Color) ************************************************* AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2Ghz) / 512Mo RAM nVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 (64Mo) NetBSD 3.0 XFree86 4.5.0 / nv / 1280x1024x24 GLXgears ~ 300FPS XscreenSaver/Atlantis = 3FPS (GL), 3FPS (Color) ************************************************ INTEL Celeron id 0x683 (550MHz) / 128Mo RAM S3 Savage/IX+MV (8Mo) NetBSD 3.0 XFree86 4.5.0 / SAVAGE 1.1.27 (GLcore, GLX started) / 1024x768x24 GLXGears = 66FPS XScreenSaver/Atlantis = 1FPS (GL), 1FPS (Color) ************************************************ INTEL Pentium 4 (2GHz) / 512Mo RAM Intel 82865G Integrated (8Mo) NetBSD 3.0 XFree86 4.5.0 / i810 1.3.0 (GLcore, GLX started) / 1280x1024x24 GLXGears = 467FPS XScreenSaver/Atlantis = 2FPS (GL), 2FPS (Color) ************************************************ INTEL Xeon (2GHz) / 1Go RAM ATI Technologies Radeon 7000/VE (16Mo) NetBSD 3.0 XFree86 4.5.0 / ati 6.5.12 (GLcore, GLX started) / 1024x768x24, 1024x768x16 GLXGears = 300FPS XScreenSaver/Atlantis = 5FPS (GL), 5FPS (Color) ************************************************ To sum up, it sucks :-( If if read NetBSD's XFree86 manpages : - nv = 2D accel, no 3D - savage = none specified - i810 = 3D accel via DRI - radeon = 2D accel, 3D accel (at least for RV100=Radeon 7000(VE), M6) So, I'm not surprise with nv test (thanks nVIDIA for closed-source linux drivers...). Not either for i810 as NetBSD don't have DRI. Here's where I'm puzzled : - S3/Savage - are they supposed to be 3D accelerated or not ? - Radeon - it's written the one I tried is 3D accelerated... So what's wrong ? does the manpage applies to Linux only ? is xscreensaver/atlantis not a good test to check for 3D accel ? do I have to use meta-pkg/xorg ? did I miss anything ? To end, the underlying question is : is there any video card at all than can display xscreensaver visuals (GL or 3D ones) correctly (lets says with more than 30FPS) ? TIA, Jo