the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:35:49AM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:01:29 +0100, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > > I tried kldloading radeon anyway and running glxgears. It can't do any
> > > better than about 10 fps at 1024x768/24bits.
> > 
> > My radeon gives 560 - 580 fps with direct rendering. An R128 would
> > probably be somewhat slower.
> 
> Running Slackware with XFree86-4.3.0 I'd get about 60-70 fps out of it.
> 
> > I think this is just telling you that it is loading the modules you told
> > it to. Later in the logfile you see if those modules are actually used.
> > Try to grep for [drm] and [agp] to see if they are really used. Or IIRC
> > grep for UnloadModule to see if Xorg discards some of those modules. Also
> > check for warning (WW) or error (EE) messages.
> 
> Hmm....
> 
> $ grep -i '\(dr\(i\|m\)\|glx\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>         X.Org Video Driver: 0.7
>         X.Org XInput driver : 0.4
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
> (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
> (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
> (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> (II) Loading extension GLX
> (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
> (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> (II) Loading sub module "drm"
> (II) LoadModule: "drm"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/freebsd/libdrm.a
> (II) Module drm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
>         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
>         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
>         Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
>         ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
> (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.5.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga
> (II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets:
> (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
> (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
> drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
> drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
> drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
> drmGetBusid returned ''
> (II) R128(0): [drm] created "r128" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
> (II) R128(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xc1c0b000
> (II) R128(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xc1c0b000 to 0x2834b000
> (II) R128(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xf8000000
> (II) R128(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) R128(0): [drm] register handle = 0xf0200000
> (II) R128(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized
> (II) R128(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
> (II) R128(0): [DRI] installation complete
> (II) R128(0): [drm] Added 128 16384 byte vertex/indirect buffers
> (II) R128(0): [drm] Mapped 128 vertex/indirect buffers
> (II) R128(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 11

Right after this line I get (for my radeon):

(II) RADEON(0): [drm] Initialized kernel GART heap manager, 5111808

Followed by:

(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled

Maybe AGP GART isn't working?


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