[ILUG] [comp.os.linux.hardware] Graphics card fully supported by Open Source drivers!

[Stephen McGuinness]

bash-2.05b$ glxgears
371 frames in 7.0 seconds = 53.000 FPS
341 frames in 6.0 seconds = 56.833 FPS
340 frames in 7.0 seconds = 48.571 FPS
341 frames in 6.0 seconds = 56.833 FPS
227 frames in 5.0 seconds = 45.400 FPS

*sob*



On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:54:48 -0000 (GMT), Conor Wynne
<weeboy at conorwynne.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 30 Nov 2004, at 13:11, Conor Wynne wrote:
> >
> >> Ah Niall, you have one of those fancy OSS supported chips. Can you run
> >> "glxgears" and tell me what frame rate you get.
> >>
> >> Its not super acurate but it will give me an idea is its worth buying.
> >
> > 230/240 fps. I bet that isn't very good but I could care less - I just
> > want to get it working dual head. I certainly have done nothing to make
> > 3D work nicely.
> 
> So buying that card would make the performance _worse_ than the G200.
> You should be getting approx 5000 FPS to play any sort of modern game.
> 
> Sure 230/240 FPS is good enough for tuxracer, forget about anything decent.
> 
> 
> 
> > Niall
> 
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