Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-12-13 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 23:06 schrieb Dieter Nützel: > Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 23:31 schrieb Keith Whitwell: > > Ian Romanick wrote: > > > Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > >> Slightly OT, but here's an article comparing XiG Summit, dri cvs and > > >> the ATI driver on a radeon 9000pro. > >

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-12-10 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 23:31 schrieb Keith Whitwell: > Ian Romanick wrote: > > Roland Scheidegger wrote: > >> Slightly OT, but here's an article comparing XiG Summit, dri cvs and > >> the ATI driver on a radeon 9000pro. > >> http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/atilinux_oct03/ati_linux_comp

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-20 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Keith Whitwell wrote: The problem is (probably) due to excessive flushing introduced by the changes Ian referenced. I had time to put together a patch, but at that point was having real issues getting CVS to compile. These are probably at my end, but before they were resolved I got sidetracked

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-20 Thread Keith Whitwell
Ian Romanick wrote: Roland Scheidegger wrote: Slightly OT, but here's an article comparing XiG Summit, dri cvs and the ATI driver on a radeon 9000pro. http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/atilinux_oct03/ati_linux_comp_oct03.html And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-20 Thread Ian Romanick
Roland Scheidegger wrote: Slightly OT, but here's an article comparing XiG Summit, dri cvs and the ATI driver on a radeon 9000pro. http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/atilinux_oct03/ati_linux_comp_oct03.html And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri driver is q

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison, cp vs rm; cp.

2003-10-17 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:36, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Well, I've never tried to install the whole XFree86 when it's running, > > but I'm often lazy and just compile the mesa/src/drv/r200 if only small > > changes happen a

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison, cp vs rm; cp.

2003-10-17 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:36, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > Alex Deucher wrote: > > > > > >> As I recall KDE preloads libGL for some reason. that might have > > >> something to do with it. > > > > > > If you make sure tha

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:36, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Alex Deucher wrote: > > > >> As I recall KDE preloads libGL for some reason. that might have > >> something to do with it. > > > > If you make sure that the old driver.so file is removed, not > > overwritten, th

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-17 Thread Keith Whitwell
Roland Scheidegger wrote: Keith Whitwell wrote: And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri driver is quite a bit slower (up to 50% in some subtests) in SpecViewPerf compared to the cvs version of july? Could this be related to the changes with GLX_NV_vertex_array_ran

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Keith Whitwell wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: As I recall KDE preloads libGL for some reason. that might have something to do with it. If you make sure that the old driver.so file is removed, not overwritten, there shouldn't be any problem, as existing open filehandles won't then see any changes

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Keith Whitwell
Alex Deucher wrote: As I recall KDE preloads libGL for some reason. that might have something to do with it. If you make sure that the old driver.so file is removed, not overwritten, there shouldn't be any problem, as existing open filehandles won't then see any changes. I'm not sure if the XFr

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Alex Deucher
As I recall KDE preloads libGL for some reason. that might have something to do with it. Alex --- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:17, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > > > btw why exactly isn't it possible to hot-swap (when xfree86 is > running) > > the dri driv

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:17, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > btw why exactly isn't it possible to hot-swap (when xfree86 is running) > the dri driver (r200_dri.so)? This kinda works, but kwm, kicker > kwhatever insists on crashing shortly afterwards :-( Weird, when you do what exactly? I've never

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Keith Whitwell wrote: And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri driver is quite a bit slower (up to 50% in some subtests) in SpecViewPerf compared to the cvs version of july? Could this be related to the changes with GLX_NV_vertex_array_range, GLX_MESA_agp_offset, G

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:49, Roland Scheidegger wrote: And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri driver is quite a bit slower (up to 50% in some subtests) in SpecViewPerf compared to the cvs version of july? I wonder if it could be related to r

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Keith Whitwell
Roland Scheidegger wrote: Slightly OT, but here's an article comparing XiG Summit, dri cvs and the ATI driver on a radeon 9000pro. http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/atilinux_oct03/ati_linux_comp_oct03.html And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri driver is qu

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:51:20PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:49, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > > > And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri > > driver is quite a bit slower (up to 50% in some subtests) in > > SpecViewPerf compared to the

Re: [Dri-devel] driver comparison

2003-10-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:49, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > And to get this fully on-topic, is there a specific reason why the dri > driver is quite a bit slower (up to 50% in some subtests) in > SpecViewPerf compared to the cvs version of july? I wonder if it could be related to recent 2D drive