[SOLVED] Slow OpenGL Performance

skibbi · Last edited by skibbi on Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:48 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,
I have a Thinkpad X31 with a PentiumM 1,5GHz and a Radeon M6 LY (a.k.a.Radeon 7000). I know this is not the fastest hardware on earth but I think 290fps with glxgears is a bit too slow for this system. The problem is that glxinfo says that direct rendering works.

Any ideas? Because of this fact and that eselect-opengl terminated with message "killed" each time, I just did a completly new install of gentoo but the performance problem is identical.
Because fglrx do not support this graphics adapter I use the radeon kernel module (gentoo-sources 2.6.20-r6).

DirtyHairy · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:26 am Post subject:

Glxgears is worthless as a benchmark tool and the number it outputs doesn't correlate to real 3D performance. You should try some realworld opengl application, e.g. neverball or tomatoes...

skibbi · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject:

neverball was a good hint. I saw that its availably for windows, too. So I can compare the results under this OS.
I will post the results then.

skibbi · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:

I should buy a faster Notebook i think. Same slow performance under windows and linux. But the good news everything is ok under gentoo.