Low FPS on ati radeon 7000

[Noah Dain]

On 1/8/06, William Grant <tanarrifujitsu at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> Giovanni De Maio wrote:
> > Hi, i have breezy badger and an ati radeon 7000.
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> > I have 3d acceleration enabled but the fps value is low.
> >
> > When i run glxgears, the output message is "sizeof(RADEONDRIRec) == 100,
> > devPrivSize 100".
> >
> > I don't understand it.
>
> I also have a Radeon 7000, with Breezy, with low frame rates. This is
> with the default ATI driver (ati), not fglrx, as fglrx supports only the
> 9000 and above.
>
> I get that sizeof message when running anything that uses OpenGL, and
> everything crawls, like DRI isn't actually enabled. However, glxinfo
> says it is enabled, and everything is enabled properly in xorg.conf. I
> don't need OpenGL very often at all, so the slowness doesn't really
> affect me, but it is a bit mystifying...
>
> William.
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make sure your cpu is at max speed before running something like
glxgears.  on my thinkpad with an ati 7500, the cpu doesn't budge from
minimal speed while running glxgears, and so it's rather slow. 
Forcing the cpu to max speed makes a huge difference.

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Noah Dain
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