[fluxus] Fwd: Slow frame rate in 64-bit Ubuntu

[I. E. Smith-Heisters]

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From: I. E. Smith-Heisters <heisters at 0x09.com>
Date: Jul 6, 2007 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [fluxus] Slow frame rate in 64-bit Ubuntu
To: Gerry Grainger <nowhere.elysium at gmail.com>
Cc: fluxus at lists.pawfal.org


What drivers are you using for your Radeon? My experience with ATI's
Linux drivers has been, shall we say, less than stellar.

On 7/6/07, Gerry Grainger <nowhere.elysium at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks: I've just installed fluxus on my shiny new 64-bit machine
> (especially built, purely *for* fluxus), and it's running pretty slow.
> Basically, I've got an AMD64x2 4600+ CPU, 2GB RAM, and a Radeon X600 card in
> there, on Ubuntu 7.04, fully
>  updated and everything.
> If I do something as simple as:
> (build-cube)
> (show-fps 1),
> it comes up as about 40fps. On my Dell laptop (with a 1.6 GHz Pentium Mobile
> - it's about two years old now), it flies along at about 350-400 fps. The
> Dell as an M300 card in it (Radeon X300 mobile), and 1 GB of RAM.
> Any ideas?
>