News ATI drivers
Gabor Gombas
gombasg at sztaki.hu
Thu Sep 13 09:42:09 PDT 2007
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:52:57AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Alan, I'm sorry to be wasting your time with this piddly-assed thread. The
> point I've made, and which no one will just ignore, was that I went out and
> spent something like $90 US, to buy a card that could do such as the more
> recent google earth, or if I was really in a mood to waste time, play tux
> racer. That ati card, running on the radeon driver, isn't capable of doing
> google earth without major breakups in the imaging, and tux racer's response
> to keyboard input is so slow as to be un-playable when the video is taking so
> much cpu the keyboard is ignored for 1 to 3 seconds at a time. I was getting
> <250 fps from glxgears with it, at 95%+ cpu, now with a Jaton GForce 6200-256
> and nvidia drivers I get 1500 or so with just a few % of cpu usage.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log for the machine in my office:
...
(--) Chipset ATI Radeon 9200SE 5964 (AGP) found
...
glxgears reports around 900 fps with ~20% CPU. I've used Google Earth a
couple of times and it worked without any problems. I don't do gaming so
I have no idea about tuxracer performance. The only problem is it has no
DVI output, but it still produces a very nice picture on a brand-new 20"
Dell flat panel.
Gabor
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