Low FPS on ati radeon 7000

[Giovanni De Maio]

Il giorno lun, 09/01/2006 alle 08.02 +0000, Noah Dain ha scritto:
> On 1/8/06, William Grant <tanarrifujitsu at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> > Giovanni De Maio wrote:
> > > Hi, i have breezy badger and an ati radeon 7000.
> > >
> > > I have 3d acceleration enabled but the fps value is low.
> > >
> > > When i run glxgears, the output message is "sizeof(RADEONDRIRec) == 100,
> > > devPrivSize 100".
> > >
> > > I don't understand it.
> >
> > I also have a Radeon 7000, with Breezy, with low frame rates. This is
> > with the default ATI driver (ati), not fglrx, as fglrx supports only the
> > 9000 and above.
> >
> > I get that sizeof message when running anything that uses OpenGL, and
> > everything crawls, like DRI isn't actually enabled. However, glxinfo
> > says it is enabled, and everything is enabled properly in xorg.conf. I
> > don't need OpenGL very often at all, so the slowness doesn't really
> > affect me, but it is a bit mystifying...
> >
> > William.
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> make sure your cpu is at max speed before running something like
> glxgears.  on my thinkpad with an ati 7500, the cpu doesn't budge from
> minimal speed while running glxgears, and so it's rather slow. 
> Forcing the cpu to max speed makes a huge difference.
> 
> --
> Noah Dain
> "Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing
> to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM
> Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25
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It isn't CPU problem, CPU is at max speed always. During glxgears
execution, CPU becomes 100% occupied.