[gentoo-user] Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation

[gentoo-user] Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation

[Adam Carter]

I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and 1.0.0.23-r1 with 29).

Interestingly ati-drivers 9.7 with .29 returned 1800fps on glxgears, but really I don't care much about 3D so I havent gone back.

I'm just wondering how other ati and vmware users are finding the kernel versions, and in particular if you're having luck with .30-r4?

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/04/2009 04:34 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
> I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and 1.0.0.23-r1 with 29).
>
> Interestingly ati-drivers 9.7 with .29 returned 1800fps on glxgears, but really I don't care much about 3D so I havent gone back.
>
> I'm just wondering how other ati and vmware users are finding the kernel versions, and in particular if you're having luck with .30-r4?

Please stop using glxgears as a performance benchmark.  You could double 
the driver's performance in real applications and glxgears would report 
the same or worse results.

Use a real benchmark.  If app-benchmarks/phoronix-test-suite is too 
complex for you (it's overkill for a quick GL test), you can try some 
stand-alone GL benchmark.  Like this:

http://dee.cz/lightsmark