Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears
Hi all,
I've got a Dell D600 laptop with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 graphics
card. I started out in october last year installing Knoppix 3.1 and
later 3.3 on it. At that time Knoppix was an appealing distribution,
since it came with XFree 4.3.0.
It wasn't what I eventually wanted, however, and I switched to sid in
January, which got XFree 4.3.0 a few weeks ago. This we all know.
Now, I am somewhat frustrated about the fact that Knoppix beats the shit
out of sid when it comes to glxgears performance. In terms of frames per
second I get the following results
DRI | Knoppix Sid
----+------------------
yes | 1330 800
no | 380 320
These results are obtained with Knoppix running from CD under KDE, and
Sid running from the harddrive under fluxbox. I have tested several
kernels but get the same results both for Knoppix (when it was installed
on the harddrive) and Sid. The only answer I currently can come up with
is that XFree has been compiled with different levels of optimisation.
Has anyone got a similar experience for their machine? Why not download
Knoppix 3.3 from http://www.knoppix.org now and try it yourself? Knoppix
run directly from CD.
I am quite anxious to get hold of the missing 500 frames.
Cheers
Paal
#--------------------------------
# Knoppix XFree86.0.log snippet
#--------------------------------
XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0-3 20040229223050 joshk@triplehelix.org)
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.3-mm4 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 29 February 2004
#--------------------------------
# Sid XFree86.0.log snippet
#--------------------------------
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds4 20030416150820 dstone@aedificator)
Release Date: 18 March 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-pre5 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 16 April 2003
Reply to: