[ale] Lousy Performance with ATI board with Ubuntu

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 13:47 -0500, Jeff Tillotson wrote:
> I made a commitment to myself last weekend to use only open source
> software at home.  So I handed off the iBook to the girlfriend and
> installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my IBM Thinkpad T42.  I have run various linux
> distributions on desktop and laptops before but I am very happy with
> Ubuntu. As much as I love it I think I can love it a little bit more if
> I could get beryl running.  
> 
> Does anyone know if the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 has performance
> issues?  I have the driver installed:
> 
> jefft at ironman:~$ fglrxinfo 
> display: :0.0  screen: 0
> OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9600 Generic
> OpenGL version string: 2.0.6011 (8.28.8)
> 
> However, fgl_glxgears only shows around a 430 fps rate.  I was expecting
> to see a lot better rate than that.  So is there any known issues with
> the performance with this card under Ubuntu?  Has anyone had this
> problem before?
> 
> Other than that, I couldn't be more pleased with how this system runs.

On my T60p I get this:

~$ fgl_glxgears 
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
2786 frames in 5.0 seconds = 557.200 FPS

~$ fglrxinfo 
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5200 Pentium 4 (SSE2)
(FireGL) (GNU_ICD)
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6234 (8.32.5)


My last lappy was a T42, and I too was very happy with it's performance.
I like the T60p, but still think the T42 was more stable and better
built.

-Jim P.