very slow 3d on Mobility FireGL V5200 with radeon driver

[Marc MERLIN]

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?
 
> > 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

I don't mind going to git next, but I'm not even sure if I should prefer
radeon to radeonhd for that chip, or the other way around?

Marc
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