Upgrading the One's 3d drivers

jsebrech · Nov 16, 2008

Pandemonium said:
Foranamo said:

4654 frames in 5.0 seconds = 930.652 FPS

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Holy cow.
How on earth are you getting numbers that high?

I'm seeing 960 fps in glxgears on a 512 MB AAO running the bundled linpus.

I got these numbers by upgrading to the 2.2.1 driver (except for commenting out the videoram line in the xorg.conf, because that seemed to take up more memory without bringing any performance advantage), then by changing the write-combining, and finally by upgrading mesa-libGL.
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2481
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4256

Everything still works, without glitches or hangs. The updates didn't just improve 3d performance. Firefox is noticeably faster, and scrolling is smoother.

enyone · Nov 23, 2008

For me it says: Could not find update match for mesa-libGL

It can be found ...

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ yum search mesa-libGL
mesa-libGL.i386 : Mesa libGL runtime libraries and DRI drivers

mesa-libGLw-devel.i386 : Mesa libGLw development package
mesa-libGLw.i386 : Xt / Motif OpenGL widgets
mesa-libGLU.i386 : Mesa libGLU runtime library
mesa-libGL-devel.i386 : Mesa libGL development package
Glide3-libGL.i386 : Glide3 OpenGL library for use with 3Dfx Voodoo 1 & 2 cards
mesa-libGLU-devel.i386 : Mesa libGLU development package
mesa-libGL.i386 : Mesa libGL runtime libraries and DRI drivers
mesa-libGLU.i386 : Mesa libGLU runtime library

... but still ...

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo yum -y update mesa-libGL
audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
Setting up Update Process
Could not find update match for mesa-libGL
No Packages marked for Update

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install mesa-libGL
audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package mesa-libGL - 7.0.1-7.fc8.i386 is already installed.
Nothing to do

Linux localhost 2.6.23.9lw #105 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 27 18:56:59 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Linpus Linux Lite v1.0.3.E

toymom · Dec 28, 2008

I get the following message

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo yum -y update mesa-libGL
Loading "presto" plugin
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for fedora
No Presto metadata available for updates
Setting up Update Process
Could not find update match for mesa-libGL
No Packages marked for Update

mrmero · Jan 9, 2009

Hi all

. just joined up and want to say what a great forum you guys have made this . Give yourselves a big pat on the back .

Right , down to business . I read with interest about upgrading the intel graphics driver and upgrading the mesa-libGL . My average score before the upgrade was around 460 , but after upgrading and a reboot i,m now around the 1200 fps mark . Now i know faster is better , but has anybody else achieved a score like this ?

heres a screenshot of my terminal just to prove it

p.s - forgot to say i only upgraded the mesa-libgl through the package manager.

annafil · Jan 10, 2009

mrmero said:
My average score before the upgrade was around 460 , but after upgrading and a reboot i,m now around the 1200 fps mark . Now i know faster is better , but has anybody else achieved a score like this ?.

yowza! I'm crawling along at a miserable 550 on Intrepid

apparently the difference is the new driver and the new X server don't have support for some of the things that have been giving us these good speeds. The best combination seems to be to use the i810 driver (not intel modesetting, the old i810), the previous X stable version and relevant driver version, and apply the Batch intel hack... alas not on Intrepid.

Cheers on your numbers though

welcome to the forum

mrmero · Jan 11, 2009

Thank you

.

But i did a quick recheck yesterday and now i'm back around the 460 mark again , oh well it was fun while it lasted

.

toymom · Jan 12, 2009

toymom said:
I get the following message

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo yum -y update mesa-libGL
Loading "presto" plugin
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for fedora
No Presto metadata available for updates
Setting up Update Process
Could not find update match for mesa-libGL
No Packages marked for Update

can anyone help?

Zorofroozo · Jan 17, 2009

by doing

Code:

sudo yum install mesa-libGL*

you gain nothing

even seems slower (but fixes itself after reboot)

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ glxgears
1882 frames in 5.0 seconds = 376.293 FPS
2040 frames in 5.0 seconds = 407.860 FPS
2097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.277 FPS
2094 frames in 5.0 seconds = 418.661 FPS
2087 frames in 5.0 seconds = 417.253 FPS
1897 frames in 5.0 seconds = 379.227 FPS

[user@localhost ~]$

has anyone who downloaded a new driver, already tryed running guild wars?? i'm very curious if it is able to run with a nw driver.

TheTilde · Feb 20, 2009

toymom said:
toymom said:

I get the following message

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Could not find update match for mesa-libGL
No Packages marked for Update

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can anyone help?

hi
maybe you have to add the rpmfusion repositories??
#code=======
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fed ... noarch.rpm
#====/code

TheTilde

TheTilde · Feb 20, 2009

annafil said:
yowza! I'm crawling along at a miserable 550 on Intrepid apparently the difference is the new driver and the new X server don't have support for some of the things that have been giving us these good speeds. The best combination seems to be to use the i810 driver (not intel modesetting, the old i810), the previous X stable version and relevant driver version, and apply the Batch intel hack... alas not on Intrepid.

I have read that the devs asked that benchmarks be done with a 3D (tuxracer?) game instead of glxgears... Because glxgears doesn't really draw 500 frames per seconds on a monitor... It's useful to test between similar configurations, but not between distri or between hardy and ibex. Just saying, myself I don't know any better.
TheTilde