Hello, Michel!

On 19 Dec 2002 03:03:09 +0100 you wrote:

> On Son, 2002-12-15 at 09:25, Nick Kurshev wrote: 
> > 
> > I've found out the strange things in DRI-CVS!
> > My regular upgrade of Xfree86 and DRI looks like this:
> > 1. I do checkout of both Xfree86-CVS and DRI-CVS
> > 2. After installing and executing of Xfree86-CVS - glxgears shows me 430 FPS
> > 3. After installing and execuring of DRI-CVS - glxgears shwos me 420 FPS
> > 4. After reboot DRI-CVS shows me 360 FPS only!
> 
> Have you verified that direct rendering is used in all cases?
Yes! of course
Without direct rendering my system is unable give me more than 160 FPS
> 
> > It seems that DRI-CVS doesn't configure some registers or
> > something similar. Means that before reboot - DRI works with
> > hardware which was configured by Xfree86 drivers but
> > after reboot it is not able to configure video card properly.
> > 
> > I've attached 3 dumps of Radeon's registers. These dump were generated
> > with using of slightly modified by me 'gfxdump' utility from "old-gatos"
> > CVS (at linuxvideo.org).
> > 
> > Could please someone to investigate this problem?
> 
> I investigated the three dumps with meld and none of the registers that
> differ seem performance critical to me.
> 
except 'rbbm_cmdfifo_stat'! ;)
> Someone asked a similar question on the Xpert list lately, and it turned
> out to be a BIOS feature to regulate system performance, could it be
> something like that?
First - my BIOS may configure of AGP speed and AGP aperture size only!
Second - if it's problem of the BIOS then why it doesn't affect XFree86?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Earthling Michel Dфnzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
> XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
> 


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