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 1MjJdi-0006cs-2o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:14:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B18EE0964; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 02:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D22BE0964 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 02:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC8F67188 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 02:23:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.004 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.004 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.405, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 rJUM99TLz6Jq for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 02:23:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F6967190 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 02:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MjOS3-0006N3-Id for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:22:59 +0200 Received: from athedsl-376481.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.22.159]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:22:59 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-376481.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:22:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:22:41 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <5602B0BD6D59AE4791BE83104940118D01462E1069@excprdmbxw002.optus.com.au> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-376481.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090826 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: <5602B0BD6D59AE4791BE83104940118D01462E1069@excprdmbxw002.optus.com.au> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: bfbe99da-aa83-4709-afb7-0f9eea68b6e7 X-Archives-Hash: 5598410bdf3613d49c9e75820d7e8588 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