RE: ATI on FreeBSD! FireGL Linux Driver Port (correction,clarification)

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 01:14 -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Anholt [mailto:eta_at_lclark.edu] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:23 AM
> > To: Darren Pilgrim
> > Cc: 'Chris Gilbert'; freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> > Subject: RE: ATI on FreeBSD! FireGL Linux Driver Port 
> > (correction,clarification)
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:12 -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> > > From: Darren Pilgrim
> > > > 
> > > > - Ran glxgears, default window size, both drivers with 
> > DRI disabled.
> > > > 	fglrx: ~164 FPS
> > > > 	radeon: ~670 FPS.
> > > 
> > > The xorg logs indicate the radeon driver test was run without:
> > > 
> > > 	Options "VideoOverlay" "on"
> > > 	Options "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
> > > 
> > > I retested the radeon driver with the above options 
> > specified and got the
> > > same performance.
> > 
> > Those aren't radeon driver options (which should all be specified in
> > radeon(4)).
> 
> True.  But by the radeon(4) man page on the test system, the closest thing
> would be NoAccel.  Testing the radeon driver, with DRI disabled, the
> fglrx-specific options commented out and "NoAccel" "on":
> 
> 2D performance is a misnomer.
> glxgears: ~683 FPS
> 
> If you, Chris or anyone can think of a set of options to make the radeon
> driver more equivalent to the fglrx driver, post 'em and I'll grind the
> gears.

I'm confused, why are you using glxgears as if it was a benchmark?

If you wanted to turn off 3d hardware acceleration, and some 2d
acceleration related to that, then remove Load "dri" from your
xorg.conf.

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