On Son, 2011-08-28 at 13:16 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote: > > On my system, using KMS and DRI2 is really slow (this is known in at > least some cases; KMS/DRI2 just isn't as mature right now, I think? See > 572911, 607510, and probably others). So, I have disabled KMS and just > want to use regular DRI, which is currently much better. > > The problem is, the r300_dri.so that is shipped with libgl1-mesa-dri is > the Gallium driver (I have a Radeon X1300, which uses r300_dri.so). > This only works with DRI2, so all of the 3d rendering is done via > swrast_dri.so. The performance isn't bad (still much better than KMS), > but if I build libgl1-mesa-dri locally, and grab the non-Gallium > r300_dri.so I get better performance since I'm no longer rendering via > software.
And to reiterate on what Cyril said: If the Gallium driver is slower than swrast_dri.so (doing what?), that sounds like something very basic is going wrong, and you should really look into that. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1314602587.31972.41.camel@thor.local
