Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question

Mark Adams wrote:
John-Paul Stewart wrote:
Mark Adams wrote:
John-Paul Stewart wrote:
Mark Adams wrote:
# glxgears
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
1046 frames in 5.0 seconds = 209.169 FPS
1068 frames in 5.0 seconds = 213.451 FPS
1069 frames in 5.0 seconds = 213.653 FPS
1062 frames in 5.0 seconds = 212.399 FPS
qq1755 frames in 5.0 seconds = 350.905 FPS
Those numbers don't look right. You should be seeing around 10x those numbers, given the description of your hardware. (Have a look at http://www.free3d.org/ for results from other users of similar hardware with the open source drivers.)

Something is wrong with your configuration, but I have no idea what it might be. Everything else you've posted in this thread (except for the benchmark numbers) looks fine, AFAICT.
I'll have another go at free3d.org, but I was over this and over it on the ClubMandriva support forums and the developers there wound up pointing fingers at the ATI driver; the open source driver is a better hack than the proprietary driver, but it's still not good enough to work the hardware properly.
So you've tried the closed-source fglrx driver and have now gone back to using the open source driver, right? In that case, did you re-install the the Mesa libraries after uninstalling fglrx? I found that I needed to re-install the libgl1-mesa-glx package (Debian/testing, package name will vary by distro) in order for the open source driver to function properly. This glitch may have been Debian-specific or a result of something I did wrong, but it still might be worth a try on your system.

Actually both drivers are installed. I'm selecting the driver I'm using in XFdrake.

Then I would definitely try totally uninstalling the ATI driver package(s), and possibly re-installing the Mesa libs. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than upgrading your hardware....

(And in light of your comments elsewhere in this thread about it working a lot better under Ubuntu, it's quite clear that there's a configuration problem with Mandriva.)
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