kernel 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 vs glxgears

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 23 September 2004 23:39, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Greetings;
>
>Also add a wish that AGP 8x was supported on nforce2 equipt mobo's,
>but thats not why glxgears, which in previous kernels would start
> out at 350fps but drop to about 100fps in about a minutes running,
> is now running at a consistent 10fps effective the 2.6.9-rc2-mm2
> kernel.
>
>Anyone have any ideas why?

And this continues to be the case for the mm3 and mm4 kernels.

Some testing here indicates that if I replace *all* the glx stuff with 
that from MesaLibs, I get around 550 fps, but with 100% cpu going to 
glxgears.  glxinfo says drm = no

With the 6.8.1 glx stuff installed, glxinfo says drm - yes, and I get 
10 fps at 0% cpu, even at full screen, something the MesaLibs stuff 
can't handle at all.  Other screen actions do seem to be quite snappy 
even if glxgears is a crippled dog.

Noting John Smirls announce on lkml just now, I wonder if I should be 
a tester of his new drm?

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