very slow 3d on Mobility FireGL V5200 with radeon driver

[Michel Dänzer]

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.

> 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?


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