From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fr5Fl-0005wQ-Bl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:44:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5G3h0Vn021928; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:43:00 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5G3cHOA023431 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:38:18 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351016454B for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:38:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28224-10 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout2.igs.net (mailout2.igs.net [216.58.97.88]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF8864546 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:38:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from waltdnes.org (i216-58-9-176.cybersurf.com [216.58.9.176]) by mailout2.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4265D47E871 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:38:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:38:51 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:38:51 -0400 To: Gentoo Users List Subject: [gentoo-user] Speed up ATI Radeon X300 with google-earth? Message-ID: <20060616033851.GB21620@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.408 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.056, BAYES_00=-2.599, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.135] X-Spam-Score: -2.408 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: d709ed05-a257-450e-a06d-ed0fee3d0c9d X-Archives-Hash: 237dae47232ec7df4a0efcf3f8674959 The linux version of google-earth runs^H^H^H^H crawls OK on my system, except for the fact that it is excruciatingly slow due to software emulation. According to "lspci -v", I have... 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 1b60 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at e8000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting 05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 1b61 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at e9010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0 Can I set any tweaks for the open source ATI Radeon driver to speed things up? I do *NOT* want to go back to fglrx. It gave true Windows emulation... including hard lockups that required power-recycling to get out of... grrr. -- Walter Dnes In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list