RS480/RS690 OSS Compiz Achieved

[d2kx]

Yeah, if you're not playing high-end 3D games, the radeon 6.9.0 + Xserver 1.5 + Mesa 7.1 combination is already a good replace for (and sometimes [2D for example] even better than) fglrx if you're having R5xx in my opinion. Compiz, KDE4, Videos, basic 3D stuff, it all runs wonderful!

[givemesugarr]

Actually the clockscaling is on. I am using ondemand governor.

glxgears @800mhz: ~24% cpu usage

$ glxgears 
2497 frames in 5.0 seconds = 499.386 FPS
2640 frames in 5.0 seconds = 527.863 FPS
2600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 519.892 FPS
2623 frames in 5.0 seconds = 524.598 FPS

glxgears @2gig: ~15% cpu usage

$ glxgears 
3422 frames in 5.0 seconds = 684.355 FPS
3599 frames in 5.0 seconds = 719.718 FPS
3616 frames in 5.0 seconds = 723.072 FPS
3601 frames in 5.0 seconds = 720.198 FPS

btw, i have stopped building from git, instead i'm using xorg-edgers ppa on hardy amd64. The only difference with hand built git i see is lower mem usage.

i've finally made it....

kde4 + compiz and kde4-window-decorator + render accel + 8 compilation threads i've been able to get about 500fps in glxgears with one processor at 24% load and the other at 5%...

i've removed completely xorg packages and rebuild everything from git (including libraries, server, drivers) and then rebuild entirely kde4 and compiz and now the performance is about as i was expecting. the only issues are with kaffeine when running on compiz to be a very big resource sucker and thus not allowing me to do other stuff while trying to watch videos on compiz and firefox behaving a little slow with scrolling.
the performance without compiz is exactly the same (and this is a real surprise to me) but this time the video playback and the firefox scrolling is quite fluid and i can also do some compiling at the same time.

thanks to all who have tried to help me out and especially to the ones that have made this possible, amd and all the devs that are working on the driver.
thanks very much for the work you've done in the last months.

[c0un7d0wn]

Actually the clockscaling is on. I am using ondemand governor.

glxgears @800mhz: ~24% cpu usage

$ glxgears 
2497 frames in 5.0 seconds = 499.386 FPS
2640 frames in 5.0 seconds = 527.863 FPS
2600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 519.892 FPS
2623 frames in 5.0 seconds = 524.598 FPS

glxgears @2gig: ~15% cpu usage

$ glxgears 
3422 frames in 5.0 seconds = 684.355 FPS
3599 frames in 5.0 seconds = 719.718 FPS
3616 frames in 5.0 seconds = 723.072 FPS
3601 frames in 5.0 seconds = 720.198 FPS

btw, i have stopped building from git, instead i'm using xorg-edgers ppa on hardy amd64. The only difference with hand built git i see is lower mem usage.

[givemesugarr]

givemesugar, I haven't waded through all the info in detail but at first glance I'm wondering if you still have an old smelly drm for some reason, maybe new one built but didn't get installed properly ?

Your CPU shows clock of 800 MHz vs 2 GHz for countdown's, but IIRC the TK-57 runs at ~1.9 GHz when at full speed. Could be yours is just running slow all the time; might be interesting to pull clock info while glxgears is running.

nope... the procinfo was taken when the processor was in low requirements so that it was running at lowest speed. when glxgears starts the processor goes up to max speed (i've verified it with htop). i was able to get out some more speed after removing enablepageflip (sincerely i don't know why i was using it) but it's still slow (400fps). the old x200 with half ram was running more than rs690 (about 600-700 fps).
as for drm and so on, i've just finished reinstalling today's packages after removing old ones manually. so there aren't old packages on my system. i was also able to run compiz for about 30 seconds but it was so unstable that i had to kill xorg server. the log now has only one failure (it cannot find the type1 extension that was removed from newer servers). well, i think i'll try out looking at the options in xorg.conf since i think that in the end are them that are causing problems.
might be that enabling mtrr would slow down the board?! with the old x200 i had nearly 85fps increase in performance after enabling it so i had enabled it also for the rs690 and haven't removed it anymore.

[bridgman]

givemesugar, I haven't waded through all the info in detail but at first glance I'm wondering if you still have an old smelly drm for some reason, maybe new one built but didn't get installed properly ?

Your CPU shows clock of 800 MHz vs 2 GHz for countdown's, but IIRC the TK-57 runs at ~1.9 GHz when at full speed. Could be yours is just running slow all the time; might be interesting to pull clock info while glxgears is running.

[givemesugarr]

glxinfo:

name of display: :0.0                                                                                      
R300 DRI driver expected DDX version 4-5.0.x but got version 6.9.0                                         
display: :0  screen: 0                                                                                     
direct rendering: Yes                                                                                      
server glx vendor string: SGI                                                                              
server glx version string: 1.2                                                                             
server glx extensions:                                                                                     
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,                                       
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,                              
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,                                   
    GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer                                     
client glx vendor string: SGI                                                                              
client glx version string: 1.4                                                                             
client glx extensions:                                                                                     
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,                                 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,                                  
    GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,                                                       
    GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control,                                  
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync,                                   
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,                                             
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap                                              
GLX version: 1.2                                                                                           
GLX extensions:                                                                                            
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,                                 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,                                       
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig                                                                
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project                                                                         
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer                                                                
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.1 rc1                                                                    
OpenGL extensions:                                                                                         
    GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers, GL_ARB_fragment_program,                                    
    GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow, GL_ARB_fragment_shader,                                                
    GL_ARB_half_float_pixel, GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample,                                           
    GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,                               
    GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects,                                   
    GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shading_language_120, GL_ARB_shadow,                               
    GL_ARB_shadow_ambient, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,                                                    
    GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,                                                   
    GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,                                                    
    GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,                                                  
    GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two,                                       
    GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,                                                     
    GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader,                              
    GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,                                       
    GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,                                            
    GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,                                     
    GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_convolution,                             
    GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements,                             
    GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit, GL_EXT_fog_coord,                                  
    GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,                             
    GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,                                                     
    GL_EXT_paletted_texture, GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object,
    GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
    GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
    GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
    GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D,
    GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
    GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
    GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp,
    GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB,
    GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object,
    GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
    GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_ATI_fragment_shader,
    GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays,
    GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat,
    GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_program_debug,
    GL_MESA_resize_buffers, GL_MESA_texture_array, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture,
    GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_fragment_program,
    GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_texture_rectangle,
    GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_vertex_program, GL_NV_vertex_program1_1,
    GL_OES_read_format, GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table,
    GL_SGI_texture_color_table, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap,
    GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp,
    GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture, GL_SGIX_shadow,
    GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x21 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x22 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x5b 32 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None

lspci -vvs 01:05.0:

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Device 1631:c108
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
        Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 2: Memory at fd8f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Region 4: I/O ports at 8800 [size=256]
        Region 5: Memory at fd700000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000

lspci -vvs 00:01.0:

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff
        Memory behind bridge: fd600000-fd8fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000bbf00000-00000000dbefffff
        Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
                PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
        Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
        Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Device 1631:c108

[givemesugarr]

here are some infos. i've added not only cpuinfo and meminfo, but also the xorg.conf, xorg.0.log after the last update, xvinfo, glxinfo, glxgears, lspci -vv on the video device and the gfx pci to pci bridge.

/proc/cpuinfo:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 15
model		: 104
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 800.000
cache size	: 256 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch
bogomips	: 1644.05
TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 15
model		: 104
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 800.000
cache size	: 256 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch
bogomips	: 1644.05
TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps

meminfo:

MemTotal:      3779316 kB
MemFree:        901056 kB
Buffers:        276804 kB
Cached:        1803084 kB
SwapCached:        192 kB
Active:         797600 kB
Inactive:      1641928 kB
SwapTotal:     8008360 kB
SwapFree:      7985112 kB
Dirty:           12112 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:      359608 kB
Mapped:         105924 kB
Slab:           385536 kB
SReclaimable:   350780 kB
SUnreclaim:      34756 kB
PageTables:      13932 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   9898016 kB
Committed_AS:   722720 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:     23888 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359714451 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
HugePages_Surp:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

model:
http://support.packardbell.com/it/it...4e06606&g=1400

xvinfo:

X-Video Extension version 2.2                                                                                                                          
screen #0                                                                                                                                              
  Adaptor #0: "Radeon Textured Video"                                                                                                                  
    number of ports: 16                                                                                                                                
    port base: 57                                                                                                                                      
    operations supported: PutImage                                                                                                                     
    supported visuals:                                                                                                                                 
      depth 24, visualID 0x21                                                                                                                          
    no port attributes defined                                                                                                                         
    maximum XvImage size: 2048 x 2048                                                                                                                  
    Number of image formats: 4                                                                                                                         
      id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)                                                                                                                            
        guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71                                                                                                     
        bits per pixel: 16                                                                                                                             
        number of planes: 1                                                                                                                            
        type: YUV (packed)                                                                                                                             
      id: 0x32315659 (YV12)                                                                                                                            
        guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71                                                                                                     
        bits per pixel: 12                                                                                                                             
        number of planes: 3                                                                                                                            
        type: YUV (planar)                                                                                                                             
      id: 0x30323449 (I420)                                                                                                                            
        guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71                                                                                                     
        bits per pixel: 12                                                                                                                             
        number of planes: 3                                                                                                                            
        type: YUV (planar)                                                                                                                             
      id: 0x59565955 (UYVY)                                                                                                                            
        guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71                                                                                                     
        bits per pixel: 16                                                                                                                             
        number of planes: 1                                                                                                                            
        type: YUV (packed)

xorg.conf:
http://pastebin.com/med95127

xorg.0.log:
http://pastebin.com/m57151b8f

mesa, libdrm, x11-drm, xorg-server, xf86-video-ati updated yesterday (now i get an error with aiglx that before wasn't present)

glxgears:

R300 DRI driver expected DDX version 4-5.0.x but got version 6.9.0
406 frames in 5.0 seconds = 81.076 FPS
440 frames in 5.0 seconds = 87.866 FPS
328 frames in 5.3 seconds = 61.973 FPS
894 frames in 5.0 seconds = 178.617 FPS
1031 frames in 5.0 seconds = 206.076 FPS
997 frames in 5.0 seconds = 199.302 FPS
1026 frames in 5.0 seconds = 205.171 FPS
1020 frames in 5.0 seconds = 203.872 FPS
1041 frames in 5.0 seconds = 208.191 FPS
1029 frames in 5.0 seconds = 205.659 FPS
1044 frames in 5.0 seconds = 208.753 FPS
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 19754 requests (19340 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

[c0un7d0wn]

Here is cpuinfo:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 72
model name      : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2000.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
bogomips        : 4125.35
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 72
model name      : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2000.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
bogomips        : 4125.35
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

meminfo:

$ cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:      1933796 kB
MemFree:        337280 kB
Buffers:         32360 kB
Cached:        1302768 kB
SwapCached:       1088 kB
Active:         368464 kB
Inactive:      1128700 kB
SwapTotal:     2441872 kB
SwapFree:      2398840 kB
Dirty:            4104 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:      160984 kB
Mapped:          49144 kB
Slab:            49020 kB
SReclaimable:    33224 kB
SUnreclaim:      15796 kB
PageTables:      10732 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   3408768 kB
Committed_AS:   495536 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:     22680 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359715639 kB

The laptop is this: http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/produc...?model=MS-1222

It is a barebone i used to put together from a dead laptop.

[bridgman]

Countdown/Givemesugar, can you give a bit of CPU info ? The X12xx does vertex processing on the CPU and glxgears does hardly any pixel processing so you may be CPU limited, not sure.

It would be useful to compare performance on something which made the GPU work a bit harder.

[givemesugarr]

Here is some more info for you, these are from x1250:

$ glxgears 
2404 frames in 5.0 seconds = 480.795 FPS
2706 frames in 5.0 seconds = 541.162 FPS
2677 frames in 5.0 seconds = 535.354 FPS

$ LIBGL_DEBUG=1 glxinfo 
name of display: :0.0
libGL error: 
Can't open configuration file /etc/drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL error: 
Can't open configuration file /home/serkan/.drirc: No such file or directory.
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, 
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGIS_multisample, 
    GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory, 
    GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control, 
    GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, 
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, 
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_swap_control, 
    GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_swap_control, 
    GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 NO-TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.1 rc1
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_imaging, 
    GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_shadow, 
    GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression, 
    GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_MESAX_texture_float, 
    GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, 
    GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, 
    GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, 
    GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, 
    GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, 
    GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, 
    GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_convolution, GL_EXT_copy_texture, 
    GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, 
    GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, 
    GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, 
    GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, 
    GL_EXT_stencil_two_side, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_subtexture, 
    GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, 
    GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, 
    GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, 
    GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, 
    GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, 
    GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate, 
    GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, 
    GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, 
    GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, 
    GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_light_max_exponent, 
    GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_vertex_program, 
    GL_OES_read_format, GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table, 
    GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, 
    GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture, 
    GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
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0x21 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x22 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x55 32 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None

mesa at 9704414d1376d449ad6a006a16be8139f82b5d81
xserver at 5544c51447f551dfc6df64438873a7ce64743976
xf86-video-ati at b416e97a1f16ef700ba1aaca317dee82b7a3cf64
drm is at 29ffa0017d002f9e74de42817b962b6ca2e5f20a

well, after some hard time at work, i've come back to try out setting the pc to a good health. the problem is that i still cannot get a good performance from my x1200 igp. i'm on the latest xorg, mesa, dri git code but still i have a very bad performance.... 215-216 fps in glxgears. to me it seems a little slow for a board like this. any hints on what i could try except for what i can find here?!