very slow 3d on Mobility FireGL V5200 with radeon driver

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 22:47 -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: 
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:15:21AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 15:01 -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > > This is with 6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu4 with the latest
> > > packages from ubuntu jaunty (i.e. bleeding edge).
> > > 
> > > I get the X server to init DRI with both radeonhd and radeon.
> > > With radeonhd, the machine deadlocks after I exit the X app (which is
> > > slow too) With radeon, things work, but they are quite slow.
> > > 
> > > 1613fps glxgears, 14fps lavalite, and google earth takes 5mn to zoom
> > > on a spot.
> > 
> > I don't think Google Earth should be that slow. Maybe something like
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17929 is biting you.
>  
> I had a look and tried to see what you mean.
> I don't get any r300 debug output, but is that because I have AIGLX on?
> Would you like me to turn it off?

AIGLX on or off shouldn't matter if Google Earth runs with direct
rendering. Running it with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose should clarify that.


> > > Is that expected because the driver is still experimental, or bad?
> > > (my much other r300 based thinkpad T42p does 3d much faster than this
> > > r5xx chip on my thinkpad Z61p).
> > 
> > That's weird. Are you using the same (or at least as similar as
> > possible) driver versions and configuration?
> 
> Same config file, I just s/radeonhd/radeon/
> 
> Drivers are the latest I could get in ubuntu unstable:
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon     1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu4    
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd   1.2.3-1

What about the libgl1-mesa-dri package, /etc/drirc and ~/.drirc?


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