Re: 3D video card recommendations

[Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:

> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:31:35 -0800
> From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
>     Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
>     Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>,
>     Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>, Anshuman Gholap <anshu.pg@gmail.com>,
>     Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>,
>     Toon van der Pas <toon@hout.vanvergehaald.nl>, arjan@infradead.org
> Subject: Re: 3D video card recommendations
> 
> On 11/7/05, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:01 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> > Mark thanks for the update.
> >
> > >
> > > Steven,
> > >   Hi . I run my ATI PCI_Express card on a 64-bit kernel. (2.6.14-rt6)
> > > It works fine for my needs, although as I said earlier my glxgears
> > > numbers are nothing to shout about:
> > >
> > > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370
> > > 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
> > > 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
> > >
> > > mark@lightning ~ $ glxgears
> > > Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> > > 3170 frames in 5.0 seconds = 634.000 FPS
> > > 3416 frames in 5.0 seconds = 683.200 FPS
> > > 3294 frames in 5.0 seconds = 658.800 FPS
> >
> > These aren't too shabby, but then again compared to my NVidia (non-rt
> > obviously) with their binary driver):
> >
> > 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce
> > 6800 GT] (rev a1)
> >
> > $ glxgears
> > 49961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9992.200 FPS
> > 48599 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9719.800 FPS
> > 55592 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11118.400 FPS
> > 47395 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9479.000 FPS
> >
> > What do you get with the ATI binary driver?
> 
> Last time I tried (circa 2.6.14-rc3-rtX) it didn't load correctly.
> Note that this was the ati-drivers package from portage and not an ATI
> driver package from ATI so possibly that was part of the problem.
> 
> I should probably try again one of these days but high speed graphics
> are not an issue for me on this machine. It's used for audio work
> mostly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark

Not worth trying. I spent a couple weeks with ATI tech support trying to 
get it working with no luck.  It can work with a 32 bit kernel with some 
patching but won't work at all with a 64 bit kernel.

	Gerhard

 

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