Bug#538810: video-radeon: direct rendering: graphics deceleration?

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

2009/7/31 Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>:
> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 10:29 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> 2009/7/31 Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>:
>> > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 00:13 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The next thing to try might be to install the drm modules that came
>> >> with the mesa library.
>> >
>> > There's no such thing. If you mean drm-modules-source, that's deprecated
>> > in favour of the DRM modules in the kernel.
>>
>> aren't the modules provided with mesa newer?
>
> If you mean git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm (which isn't
> really 'provided with Mesa', the repository is located there for
> historical reasons), no.
>
>
>> > BTW, what's the number of polys displayed by hypertorus?
>>
>> I have 2,080 polys.
>
> Okay, same here. I'm really stumped as to why it's so slow for you...
>

Just to add a few more data points:

Radeon 9250 does about 5.5 fps (compared to the 8fps on x550)

K8M800 integrated graphics does about 40 fps

FireGL v3350 does about 120 fps

I would expect that x550 is slightly faster than 9250 - it is in line
with what I have seen so far but I am somewhat surprised that the
K8M800 is so much faster.

Looks like the Radeons are really inefficient at that particular demo
for some reason.

This is with current sid packages.

Thanks

Michal