Xglx (partial) success story

[Jon Smirl]

It is probably becuase of lack of pbuffers in DRI. The ATI binary
driver should work on the IGP machine, you could give it a try and
tell us how it compares.


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:20:00 +0100, Francesco Biscani
<biscani at pd.astro.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> finally I was able to try Xglx and... wow! That is really amazing :)
> I installed it on two machines. The first is a workstation which sports an ATI
> 9700 Pro with ATI binary drivers, the second is a laptop with a Radeon IGP
> 340M board. Both machines have Xorg 6.8.2 installed and both have correctly
> configured 3d hw acceleration (binary ATI and DRI respectively).
> 
> Some observation:
> - Gnome runs ok, while KDE, QT apps, Mozilla and OpenOffice either exhibit
> artifacts or are pretty slow,
> - resizing windows is quite slow in all situations,
> - on the 9700 PRO performance is always excellent, i.e. also with shadows and
> transparencies moving windows around is always very smooth; the Radeon IGP on
> the laptop is quite slower, even if it beats all around plain xorg +
> composite and is able to show transparencies without taking performance hits.
> 
> I'm asking: is the IGP much slower because of the lack of pbuffer support or
> for some other reason? Or because the hw acceleration is not so good as ATI's
> binary drivers'?
> 
> I'm really impressed by what I've seen so far, congratulations for the good
> work! :)
> 
>   Francesco
> 
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> Dr. Francesco Biscani
> Dipartimento di Astronomia
> Università di Padova
> biscani at pd.astro.it
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