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  • #41
    This commit is not meant to speed up glxgears.

    It speeds up QuakeLive from 2fps to 60fps here.

    That's what you should be testing.

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    • #42
      Well, obviously, nobody's really interested in speeding up glxgears in itself, but since most people here seemed to get much higher fps, I figured I could test that, since I don't play games and thus don't plan to test QuakeLive.
      Well, never mind. I was merelly curious, I'm not that concerned.

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      • #43
        glxgears didn't change at all for me either with this patch. But QuakeLive did.

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        • #44
          Originally posted by rvdboom View Post
          I don't see much improvement myself on both of my systems, one with a RS780 9610 chipset, the other with a RS400 5955 one. Basically I get about 750 and 550 fps respectively in glxgears.
          I'm using kernel 2.6.33rc4 on both, libdrm, mesa and xf86-video-ati from git but still 1.6.2 X server on both.
          Would upgrading to a more recent Xserver would make a difference?
          As I said before, this code will not affect gears performance. It will only improve performance for applications that use glCopyTexImage or glCopyTexSubImage. glxgears does not use textures at all.

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          • #45
            OK, thanks for the feedback and for the work. :-)

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            • #46
              Hm...after updating the kernel, libdrm, mesa and xf86-video-ati to the current git release vsync (that comes with irq support) doesn't work anymore. Is that related to blit support?

              I didn't found an error in dmesg and xorg.0.log.

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              • #47
                the blit code has nothing to do with vsync.

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                • #48
                  Originally posted by agd5f View Post
                  the blit code has nothing to do with vsync.
                  Ok, that was just my assumption cause it worked before updating.

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                  • #49
                    Anyone knows if this will be picked up by Ubuntu Lucid? (or whether I'll need to compile it? I hate to mix packages with manually installed binaries). Thanks in advance!

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                    • #50
                      Originally posted by mendieta View Post
                      Anyone knows if this will be picked up by Ubuntu Lucid? (or whether I'll need to compile it? I hate to mix packages with manually installed binaries). Thanks in advance!
                      Almost certainly not. Lucid is a long term support release, and I cannot imagine them updating to mesa 7.8 a bare month before release.

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