r128 or new card

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:35 PM, alberto hernando <pajaro.go at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> the r128 driver is not deprecated, it's just a separate driver now
>> (xf86-video-r128).  although, I don't know how well it's been tested
>> lately.  most radeons should work fine.
>>
>
> Hi.
>
> First of all, I'd like to apologize, because I sent a reply to Alex
> and not to the list. In this reply, Alex told me that perhaps I had a
> problem with my libgl. Well, I tried
>
> LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
>
>
> but I didn't get any info. Actually, I had already tried it. But I
> forgot to say it before. Well, I noticed that Mesa-7.0.3 was out and
> gave it a try. And also updated xserver to 1.4.2. Now it works, so I'm
> not sure what was wrong before. I'm using LFS and it is a bit slow to
> test things, so you just don't test any possible combination.
>
> Even so, I'd like to make a question: glxgears (around 500 fps) takes
> a lot of cpu (close to 100%) and mplayer is faster with vx than with
> gl. So... what's happening here? Shouldn't all the hard work be done
> by the card? Or is there something else? I've noticed that some
> configuration with /etc/drirc is possible. Any tweak recommended?

IIRC the gl requirements of the mplayer gl output are probably more
than the r128 3D engine can handle without software fallbacks, and I'd
imaging you are hitting quite a few.

Alex