Bye bye ATI!!

Braveheart1980 · 09-22-2004, 05:41 PM

Does anybody know any program like aquamark to benchmark my 3d card under linux?

PS I don't mean glxgears!!

kleptophobiac · 09-28-2004, 05:29 AM

Q3 timedemo?

Braveheart1980 · 09-28-2004, 04:39 PM

Something better?

Electro · 09-29-2004, 01:33 AM

You can use Unreal Tournament 2004. All 3D games in Linux uses OpenGL instead of DirectX, so comparing the results is useless. You will have to redo the benchmarks using OpenGL to compare Linux to Windows which is a whole different issue that I do not want to get into. However benchmarks are estimates, so do not depend on them too much.

5KIDMA · 09-29-2004, 08:30 AM

i think that the link to that petition should be in a sticky at the top of the hardware page to bring it to the attention of EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO VISITS THIS SITE that the people of linux will take this no more, the more people on the list the more ATI will se how serious we really are

AngryLlama · 09-29-2004, 05:58 PM

All I know is that I can't get my nVidia card to work in linux... So I cant be against ATI

enigma82 · 09-29-2004, 07:52 PM

I also have an ATI but by asking questions and digging into the docs and into my system

I managed to make my 9600Pro work pretty well. I rather spend a few more hours in front of my pc in order to figure out what is wrong than spend another penny on a video card (ain't got more )

. Before this I had a GeForce2 and indeed was much less easy to install but...I choose the hard way... for now UT2K works fine on my system and I stick with ATI. (at least for now

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oliwel · 10-22-2004, 08:49 AM

Hi - question to kleptophobiac - can you tell me how you got ut2004 with the t41 working - Im triiing for 4 Weeks now....

send pm pls

Oliver

m00t00 · 10-22-2004, 10:21 AM

hrmph. I used the ati drivers for awhile, but lotsa crashes. Used the xorg drivers, worked fine, same fps in glxgears as before... (average 2000)

oliwel · 10-22-2004, 10:26 AM

Hi m00t00,

im running Suse 9.1 atm - tried Suse rpms with Sax Setup as well as ATI binary with manual setup, cant even get a fps rate > 500

- info shows that direct rendering is in use, but I dont belive that with this performance....

any hints ?

oliver

m00t00 · 10-22-2004, 10:49 AM

show me your output of glxinfo, lsmod, and your xorg.conf (or XF86Config)

m00t00 · 10-22-2004, 10:50 AM

oh. and do you have dri enabled in the kernel? if you do, that will slow it down a whole lot..

oliwel · 10-22-2004, 11:26 AM

Hi m00t00,

thx for your fest response - ok here are the important parts of the configs

Code:

oliwel@majestix:~> glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
    GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
    GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
    GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
    GLX_EXT_visual_rating
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY FIREGL T2 Pentium 4 (SSE2) (FireGL) (GNU_ICD)
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4510 (X4.3.0-3.12.0)
OpenGL extensions:
 a lot of it :)
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
    GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

Code:

fglrx                 203556  7
intel_agp              18460  1
agpgart                30888  2 intel_agp

Code:

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "v4l"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "Device"
BoardName "RV350 NP"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "fglrx"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

I also tried original Suse (Sax generated) configs and fglxconfig - result is ever the same

I downgraded to the Suse build 3.12 drivers and get a fps of 1300 now with glxfears and around 300 with fgl_glxgears, but ut2004 still crashes with

Code:

oliwel@majestix:~> ut2004
WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to change!
Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault]
Aborting.

I cant find any DRI related settings in the kernel config...so I dont know

Oliver

m00t00 · 10-22-2004, 01:59 PM

hmmm. everything in the configs look ok. /methinks either: 1. something else is wrong thats beyond me... 2. dri is enabled in the kernel. lets hope its #2.

DRI should be under device drivers->character devices, down near the bottom (assuming youre using make menuconfig).

oliwel · 10-22-2004, 03:02 PM

DRI is off, tried gentoo meanwhile (xorg with ati-drivers) problems remain the same, around 1200 fps on glxgears but ut2004 crashes on startup with SIGSEGV....
Will stop trying and boot to Win for playing

THX a lot m00t00