Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Helge Hafting]

Nix wrote:

> On 8 Dec 2005, Helge Hafting said:
>  
>
> > Lucky you.  Mine doesn't.  Using 3D on it makes the machine unstable,
> > and the performance is apalling too. So I'm looking for something
> > else - a radeon 7000 is cheap .  . .
> >    
>
> Backtraces? X version? X config?
>  
6.8.2 from debian testing

> (FWIW, my AGP Radeon 9250 works flawlessly as of X.org 6.8.99.901.
> 6.8.2 and earlier were wobbly.)
>  
Time to try again then, I guess.  Nice to know that something
is happening with the newer servers.

> Whether performance is appalling I don't know because I don't have any
> standards to measure it by, but I get 2000fps or thereabouts out of
> glxgears. That's a hell of a lot better than the 64fps I got out of
> my earlier mach64 :)
>  
I have never seen glxgears go into the thousands.  The card is
obviously not supposed to be like this - either card or driver is
faulty.  Most people don't seem to have performance problems,
with their radeons, so perhaps my card is a bit different and
don't fit the driver.

Helge Hafting

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