[Savage40] Installed driver but still no 3D acceleration

Олег xsov at mail.ru
Fri Oct 21 10:48:56 PDT 2005


I got this result on my IBM ThinkPad T23 1133MHz (Xorg 6.8.2 + latest snapshot 
of DRI (Jule version)): 
 
2548 frames in 5.0 seconds = 509.600 FPS 
2547 frames in 5.0 seconds = 509.400 FPS 
 
Use 16bit mode instead of 32bit for more FPS. Hope it helps =) 
 
> Olav Schwartz wrote: 
>  
> > Hi! 
> > I just installed the newest snapshot (common and savage) on my laptop 
> > (archlinux), installation worked fine, modules drm and savage are loaded 
> > and even glxinfo says that DRI is enabled. But running glxgears shows 
> > only 400 Fps, which is exactly what I had before installing the driver. 
>  
>  
> "Only 400 fps".  That's funny.  Considering that your monitor refresh  
> means you will only see 1 in every 5 of those frames, that's not too shabby. 
>  
> 400 fps means that the 3D acceleration is working.  I believe a  
> non-accelerated Savage gets well below 100. 
>  
> > But when I switch to another Desktop (so I cant see the windows output), 
> > i get up to 5300 FPS.(I cant remember if it was like that before 
> > installing too). 
>  
>  
> Sure.  Drawing nothing is very, very fast. 
 


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