Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:15:22 +0100 From: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-x11" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: drm MSI support Message-ID: <200810132115.26722.matt@chronos.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1223918813.98566.19.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com> References: <1223134762.1619.32.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <200810131801.06785.matt@chronos.org.uk> <1223918813.98566.19.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com>
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--nextPart2685156.tb335VYxJ5 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary-01=_ax68ItxY9F8vm17" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --Boundary-01=_ax68ItxY9F8vm17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 13 October 2008 18:26:53 you wrote: > > It doesn't seem to break anything. Don't forget we're not supposed to be > > using glxgears or any of the demos as benchmarks - case in point: I can > > remember getting framerates of 12,000+ in glxgears on a 9000 Pro a while > > ago on 5.x, which suggests to me that this number is almost meaningless. > > Sadly, the Unix variant of GLExcess does not include benchmark > > functionality as does it's Win32 counterpart, so I am unable to > > extrapolate performance data by running it. Even timing it to completion > > doesn't help as it doesn't run with the fastest speed possible (it's > > controllable with the A and Z keys). All I run it for is to ensure that > > GL doesn't bomb or fall back to software rendering on the range of > > operations glxs requires. Perhaps I ought to install the linuxulator and > > slam Doom3 on there to run a timedemo to test this stuff? > > Very true, gears is not a benchmark... =A0I know anholt used to suggest > that things like that were more suited to be real world benchmarks. The only trouble is that Doom3 doesn't want to run (and I did catch the fac= t=20 it doesn't install graphics/linux_dri as a dep, probably because this destr= oys=20 linuxulator functionality with the nvidia-driver port). Log attached, but t= he=20 bottom line is it's throwing out a libGL warning and falling back to softwa= re=20 rendering :( It is also not picking up the correct amount of video RAM from= =20 the system (should be 256MB). I'll try to find something else, preferably native, that I can benchmark wi= th. =2D-=20 Matt Dawson matt@chronos.org.uk MTD15-RIPE --Boundary-01=_ax68ItxY9F8vm17-- --nextPart2685156.tb335VYxJ5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkjzrF4ACgkQAmT9uY8euiIcrQCguEGLR8UupeKi6NybJefH6XQS SvUAn2vrgH1Yst5Ntwj5Prjney0/BvrV =hq5X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2685156.tb335VYxJ5--
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