Re: [Dri-devel] R200 testing

[Ingo M. <mi...@el...>]

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, David Bronaugh wrote:

> It seems that the kernel module was installed correctly, etc. He used a
> binary snapshot (20020708 or so).

0709 had some problems for me (tuxracer segfaulting occasionally), but
0712 works well so far.

> glxgears ran, gave about 2800 fps in a window of default size. However,
> when the window was enlarged to fullscreen, the framerate dropped to
> about 200fps. That doesn't sound quite normal.

here it goes to about 2500 fps default, 300 fps full-size. But this
happens with other 3d accelerated cards as well - the full size window is
at least 10 times larger, so a 1:10 performance drop does not look
abnormal.

> Next, tuxracer ran, but the menus were basically unusable. Sounds like
> he hit a whack of software fallbacks - frame rate on menus must have
> been less than 1fps. He didn't have the patience to get into the game.

this happens to me as well, but only if i restart the system after
installing the beta r200 driver. Re-running the install.sh script solves
the problem and the tuxracer menusystem is as fast as expected. I suspect
this is a problem of default dri kernel modules not being overwritten (?),
but the install reloads them properly. It's not a big issue though.

> Apparently there were also some artifacts in 2d, but those are of less
> concern.

havent seen any 2d artifacts so far.

	Ingo