Hi all, I've got a Dell D600 laptop with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 graphics card. I started out in october last year installing Knoppix 3.1 and later 3.3 on it. At that time Knoppix was an appealing distribution, since it came with XFree 4.3.0.
It wasn't what I eventually wanted, however, and I switched to sid in January, which got XFree 4.3.0 a few weeks ago. This we all know. Now, I am somewhat frustrated about the fact that Knoppix beats the shit out of sid when it comes to glxgears performance. In terms of frames per second I get the following results DRI | Knoppix Sid ----+------------------ yes | 1330 800 no | 380 320 These results are obtained with Knoppix running from CD under KDE, and Sid running from the harddrive under fluxbox. I have tested several kernels but get the same results both for Knoppix (when it was installed on the harddrive) and Sid. The only answer I currently can come up with is that XFree has been compiled with different levels of optimisation. Has anyone got a similar experience for their machine? Why not download Knoppix 3.3 from http://www.knoppix.org now and try it yourself? Knoppix run directly from CD. I am quite anxious to get hold of the missing 500 frames. Cheers Paal #-------------------------------- # Knoppix XFree86.0.log snippet #-------------------------------- XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0-3 20040229223050 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.3-mm4 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 29 February 2004 #-------------------------------- # Sid XFree86.0.log snippet #-------------------------------- XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds4 20030416150820 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Release Date: 18 March 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-pre5 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 16 April 2003 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
