Michael should really be running xf86-video-ati and libdrm from git and 
latest kernel-rcX, otherwise the perfomance will continue to suck in his
 articles.<br>
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There are performance improvements and there will be more as time goes by, but 
the majority of them is and will be disabled with old kernels and DDX drivers.<br><br>-Marek<br><br>On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Andres Cimmarusti &lt;<a href="mailto:andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com">andrescimmarusti@yahoo.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>

&gt;<br>&gt; ATI R300 Mesa, Gallium3D vs Catalyst<br>&gt; <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=ati_r300_current&amp;num=1">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=ati_r300_current&amp;num=1</a><br>

&gt;<br>&gt; ATI R500 Mesa vs Catalyst<br>&gt; <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=ubuntu_lts_graphics&amp;num=1">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=ubuntu_lts_graphics&amp;num=1</a><br>

&gt;<br>&gt; The first benchmark depressed me, as I have one of these cards...<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Andres<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; xorg-driver-ati mailing list<br>&gt; <a href="mailto:xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org">xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org</a><br>

&gt; <a href="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati</a><br>&gt;<br><br>