Disk I/O - too slow?

[Don Levey]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 20:56, James Drabb wrote: 
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 10:02, Don Levey wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I've got the Radeon 9600 Pro, which apparently doesn't offer
> > 3D support in Linux.  My output from glxgears averages around 95-100 fps.  I
> > haven't tried at 16-bit depth yet.
> >  -Don
> 
> Have you tried the Linux Radeon driver?  I thought I read that it
> supports up to the 9600's.

Yep - tried it.  The entire machine freezes when starting X.
Curiously enough, using the generic VESA driver I get about 350 fps
running glxgears - approx 3.5 times faster than using the ATI-supplied
drivers.

Interestingly, I changed the color depth to 16-bit and the fps reduced
to 74.  

 -Don