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airlied: +1

no, actually you really didnt know..

they dont. their patches enable the use of their notification system if available - if not it falls back to gnome default.
If you dont want the ubuntu notifications you can simply replace their...

michael just fails at getting any benchmark right. If you have vsync enabled you get 60fps in a quake3 based game. If you dont you hit the 90fps limit by the engine. Thats why serious benchmarking...

marek I guess - as he is more or less the only one actively working on the driver

yeah! thanks for the hint. finally I am able to play openarena under KMS: http://www.rojtberg.net/390/gallium3d-is-taking-over-2/

do you have installed mesa with gallium system wide? if so you have to revert to classical mesa as gallium requires KMS.

you should try the classic driver on UMS - that should be way faster than any of these...

do a git pull and recompile

did you try compiling with higher -O options? usually these automatically do the right thing regarding "inline" and instruction reordering. Furthermore a profiled build should be just as good as...

you have to remove fglrx (or workaround its libGL)

yeah, the flickering is really annoying - but I have already seen a patch for this on the DRM mailing list. Did not try it out yet though...

as for always forcing the lowest power mode: that might...

the features are mostly there in the gallium driver - unfortunately the perforance is even worse with that one..

well actually it already does memory and core reclocking as well as reducing the number of PCIE lanes - the only thing I miss now is core downvolting...

well actually thats not so important as with kms you will get dynamic power management: http://www.rojtberg.net/366/power-management-with-radeon-on-ubuntu/

because that is a bug in Ubuntu 9.10, smart ass? As you might have found out instead of complaining, the OSS driver stack is being rewritten right now. And rewriting stuff always itroduces bugs. I...

so I guess it was indeed the GTK work: https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/gtk+2.0/2.19.5-1ubuntu3

gtk got some rendering improvements in lucid. I dont recall which, but you can check the logs..

I think the last interesting update was the polish it got by ubuntu for the karmic release...

ah, ok. do you know if someone is already working on VA-API or VDPAU over gallium already? Or is just thoughts up till now?