[gentoo-user] Speed up ATI Radeon X300 with google-earth?

[gentoo-user] Speed up ATI Radeon X300 with google-earth?

[Walter Dnes]

  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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up ATI Radeon X300 with google-earth?

[Ryan Tandy]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
>   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.
> 

Check out http://r300.sourceforge.net and/or http://dri.sourceforge.net 
for the experimental DRI driver - software rendering isn't going to get 
you anywhere.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up ATI Radeon X300 with google-earth?

[Kumar Golap]

I just emerged the latest x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati (6.6,1)...for my
radeon 9200 on ~amd64
and it did wonders for me for googleearth.... googleearth on 6.6.0 was
slow like molasses in winter.

In xorg.conf I'm using the "radeon" driver.


Cheers,
Kumar

On 6/17/06, Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
> >   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.
> >
>
> Check out http://r300.sourceforge.net and/or http://dri.sourceforge.net
> for the experimental DRI driver - software rendering isn't going to get
> you anywhere.
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
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