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ddni wrote: Thanks. What sort of performance should I expect? I tried Torcs, but got <2fps?

Could you please post the output of the following commands?

mechanic wrote:They do work, but to get proper acceleration I need to rebuild with only the firmware files relative to the 6850. Why(?) I don't know, but I suspect some clash with one of the other files. I spent days trying to nail down which file(s), and just gave up looking.

It is what it is. Not really a problem.

Could you please post your glxgears values?

On your 4.4.0rc2 its about 6300 in 5 seconds. On my custom 4.4 it closer to 7500 in 5.

Can't test today, busy building again.

xeno74 wrote:

ddni wrote: Thanks. What sort of performance should I expect? I tried Torcs, but got <2fps?

Could you please post the output of the following commands?

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glxinfo | grep -i opengl

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vblank_mode=0 glxgears

root@AmigaOneX1000:/home/allan# glxinfo | grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

root@AmigaOneX1000:/home/allan# vblank_mode=0 glxgears
480 frames in 5.0 seconds = 95.889 FPS
487 frames in 5.0 seconds = 97.262 FPS
486 frames in 5.0 seconds = 97.096 FPS
483 frames in 5.0 seconds = 96.600 FPS
478 frames in 5.0 seconds = 95.466 FPS
480 frames in 5.0 seconds = 95.942 FPS
482 frames in 5.0 seconds = 96.284 FPS
480 frames in 5.0 seconds = 95.993 FPS

A bit of random installation, I may have made a mess...

Hi ddni,

Unfortunately I didn't know that you have a R9 270x installed in your A1-X1000. This graphics card doesn't have hardware 3D acceleration on Linux PPC currently. You could try to install an additional graphics card like the cheap HD5450 for hardware 3D acceleration.

Sorry.

A cheap Sapphire Radeon HD5450 for $36.40:



Cheers,

Christian

Ah. Disappointing.
I only upgraded from a 6850 to get si_warp3d in Amigaos. What an awful clash.

Will have to think this one through a bit.

Don't be in too much of a hurry to change cards, if the desktop and apps work fine then it just may take a little time for the newer cards to be sorted out in LinuxPPC.

Have you tried the supertux game and does it work?

Mint needs to be installed from the gitgo as it uses different repositories and upgrade paths. It's just a lighter weight distro, not better, or do what many of us do, put two or three different distros in, HDs are not that expensive,,,when compared to mental therapy that fixes nothing.

If you run glxgears and it keeps up with your monitors frame rate that should be good while the new drivers are being worked on.

We do need more kernel guys - - - - want to play ?

Yes not rushing to change gfx cards. Seems using two pcie cards in the x1000 would be a bad idea anyway.
Wouldnt mind some guidance on tidying up the mesa install here. I added a fex things, which slowed glxgear from
~200fps down to ~80fps. Can you take a look at the picture above and advise what I need and dont need?

Re Kernel support. You will have guessed that I am a Linux beginner. If you think I can help then point me in a direction and say go. Be prepared for lots of uh and whaaat though

The only thing I see that is useless to you is the 'nouveau' Xorg stuff, but be careful, sometimes removing one thing will also remove other files that other programs/drivers may need. Just leave as is until you have more Linux time.

For kernel building you will need GCC and MAKE to get started. You will also need the kernel source code from kernel.org. The 4.5 source has not yet been posted and that usually means its not done being modified/updated/etc.. So you could grab the 4.4 source, then get the 4.4 final from xeno74.

I suggest you first make a folder in your default directory and name it kernels or 4.4 and extract the files to that folder.

Installed your CFcard yet?

Having libgl1-mesa-glx installed caused alot of slowdown in the surface rasterizer. Uninstalling it saw my glsgears fps go from ~80 to >200fps

I installed deb7.9 and it normally installs;

libgl1-mesa-glx
libglapi-mesa
libgl1-mesa-dri
mesa-utils
libglu1-mesa

None of the other stuff showing in your post above.