Re: [Dri-users] Re: SUCCESS! Radeon 8500 DRI under RH 7.3! -> documentation

[Marcio L. T. <ma...@ho...>]

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 01:56 am, Smitty wrote:

> I'm thinking I must add the following link under user documentation and
> probably add radeon vs r200 as an FAQ.
>
> http://dri.sf.net/other/radeon_naming.html

Nice! A link in the docs would be good, because this guide would have helped 
:)

> Where is this in the beginners guide? Maybe I have an old copy, please
> post a URL.

Opps. I meant the User's Guide, sec 10.5. Anyhow, let me rephase what I wrote, 
which was sort of harse: its not *wrong*, just misleading for the new Radeon 
cards. I think that section should say something like Radeon 7x00 or 
something and a new section introduced for the Radeon 8x00 :)

> Actually there has been some work to create a script which will identify
> the card and advise which driver to download, but holiday season plus busy
> people does not make these things happen very fast.

Cool. I'm glad this is being worked on. I think it will save people a lot of 
time.

BTW, I have a small question: I've noticed that with ATI's FireGL drivers, I 
get a bit over twice the frame rate in "glxgears" than I do with the DRI 
drivers (~1080 vs. ~2200). Am I doing something really silly?

Marcio Luis Teixeira