> > Alex Perry wrote: > > > The framerate was just over 1fps, but that's because the laptop has > > > the ATI 9600 chipset so I have to choose between the unaccelerated > > > open source driver or the 32-bit only accelerated closed source
>From Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ..which laptop and which X? e-Machines M6805 The next up model in the series is the M6807 with a better optical drive. They now have a M6809 which has a 3200+ processor instead of a 3000+. Xfree86 version 4.3.0.1 on both the 32-bit and the 64-bit chroots. > How does 32- and 64-bit glxgears compare, > native screen (no resizing), 32-bit ATI driver, kernelmod, userspace: 1833 fps 32-bit ATI driver, no krnmod, userspace: 93 fps 32-bit ATI driver with 64-bit userspace: 96 fps 64-bit Open Source driver and userspace: 720 fps > full screen and "same as FG"? 32-bit ATI driver, kernelmod, userspace: 174 fps 32-bit ATI driver, no krnmod, userspace: 8.0 fps 32-bit ATI driver with 64-bit userspace: 8.5 fps 64-bit Open Source driver and userspace: 148 fps > > > driver from ATI. I used the accelerated driver, running in a chroot > > > on a biarch kernel, but ATI's kernel module doesn't compile for > > > 64-bit so I couldn't use it. > ..does ATI know? I put a note on their support site requesting a 64 bit clean "fglrx". The numbers above show why the lack of that kernel module matters. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
