Re: hardware acceleration, radeon driver 6.14 (unstable)

2011-02-22 Thread David Witbrodt
> From: Jim McCloskey > Sent: Mon, February 21, 2011 11:33:15 PM > Subject: Re: hardware acceleration, radeon driver 6.14 (unstable) > > * Dave Witbrodt (dawit...@sbcglobal.net) wrote: > > |> >But when I run glxgears, it reports 60 frames per second

Re: hardware acceleration, radeon driver 6.14 (unstable)

2011-02-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Dave Witbrodt (dawit...@sbcglobal.net) wrote: |> >But when I run glxgears, it reports 60 frames per second, which isn't exactly the |> >level of performance that I had been hoping for. And given that, it's hardly |> >surprising that applications like Google Earth are unusable. |>

Re: hardware acceleration, radeon driver 6.14 (unstable)

2011-02-21 Thread Dave Witbrodt
On 02/20/2011 03:40 AM, Jim McCloskey wrote: [...] And it seemed to work. /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports that direct rendering and acceleration are enabled. And glxinfo reports: %glxinfo | grep -i opengl OpenGL vendor string: X.Org OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR

Re: hardware acceleration, radeon driver 6.14 (unstable)

2011-02-20 Thread Jim McCloskey
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, I wote: |> I have a 5000-series Radeon card in my laptop: |> . |> Does anyone know if version 6.13 *should* support hardware |> acceleration for this chipset or if I simply have to be patient a little longer? On Tue, 08 Feb 2011, hob...@poukram.net (R