[ILUG] Dodgy DRI

[A.J.Delaney at brighton.ac.uk]

Conor,
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:19 +0000, Conor Wynne wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2006, at 03:14, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > Has anyone got a radeon 7000 or 7200 with DRI? What sort
> > of fps do you get from glxgears?
> 
> Forget it, its a cheap card, dont bother with 3D.

I have a similar card and am also partial to the Intel shared memory
jobbies.  I find their 3d performance acceptable for desktop
acceleration and the odd Quake II and tuxracer games.  Why would you not
bother with 3d on those cards?

As for the problem, I believe the 7000 and 7200 are actually different
cores where the 7000 requires the "ati" driver and the 7200 the "radeon"
driver...but I could be completely wrong, but this
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
seems to confirm what I've been told.

-- 
Aidan Delaney
Lecturer,
School of Computing, Mathematics and Information Sciences,
University of Brighton.