From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Pfh0Q-0001qp-Hv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:59:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 706CEE07B1; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:58:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB9CE07B1 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:58:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so1050177ewy.40 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:58:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=M6CRqzzbO5ZPJSEVVfvzia5HDxzsdmgUDpxCDtPE6lI=; b=Fe7skMzGPyGrgmFYeZi/tPlMYpocKpumv63VlqTApuE6oy53mhkrzdWuDKyyNpScy2 fCDIWa+H0bV6J3RnVj0iOOQ7BnRobf1QIV1NNHXHBM10PY9BBuzuYQxh/B7y1uV10G5o b4uK5NKbd8Ge8SdtfOmkgN/o1vYVS4SJhp0gE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=lz62+pNagE5bsyP4sqUPV4miTdljGvHrAe01cmHnuS/S0uPHD/VMkOLAzRKhCpEoHR fU2qmwIeqLnRhcI4PCt8oz/O4GBzkSaClOaVnRjZKR7r8omtLXawtv9X5RGTdeFPu+T1 48H/8m80X7hXnjVKldiIe6oRSOsz912+FD1qI= Received: by 10.213.27.202 with SMTP id j10mr1920263ebc.49.1295477904950; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:58:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t50sm5956871eeh.12.2011.01.19.14.58.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:58:24 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:58:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2919478.fRegbFycTV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201101192258.31036.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6f0a5f4718d74a2450fe403eaab848dd --nextPart2919478.fRegbFycTV Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 19 January 2011 16:05:11 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Mick wrote: > >=20 > > I have seen some seriously spurious results from glxgears over the > > years. I recall reading somewhere that if your fps is less that 100, > > it may be caused by your screen refresh rate being out of keel with > > your card or something like that. glxgears is good for one thing - > > showing you by means of a GUI that 3D graphics work on your set up. > >=20 > > http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Glxgears_is_not_a_Benchmark > >=20 > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick >=20 > I COMPLETELY agree! However I know of no other graphics benchmarking > app that's likely to be on a list member's machine and is easy to run. >=20 > I'd be really interested in a common Gentoo way of measuring graphics > performance but I don't know of one.=20 I have used gtkperf when I was benchmarking different settings on a box: $ eix -l gtkperf * app-benchmarks/gtkperf Available versions: =20 (~) 0.40 "~amd64 ~ppc ~x86" [nls] Homepage: http://gtkperf.sourceforge.net/ Description: Application designed to test GTK+ performance Alternatively, most people who are interested in gaming use demos from the= =20 games they play. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2919478.fRegbFycTV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk03bJYACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbJggCgtZ13iehJud6sanNNJuKNIc/h XzAAoOkEoT4FAtBstNcqOPdTJE3P3iMB =Hd68 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2919478.fRegbFycTV--