[Debian-eeepc-devel] 9156resolution stopped working after lenny->squeeze upgrade

[Santi Béjar]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Pedro Bulach Gapski <pbgapski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Juha,
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Juha Heinanen <jh at tutpro.com> wrote:
>> Pedro Bulach Gapski writes:
>>
>>  > This is the same setup I have been using for a few months. Not great,
>>  > but fair ;-)
>>
>> i just noticed that in debian squeeze, using X with fbdev driver
>> glxgears reports only about 94 FPS, when in lenny it used to report
>> about 200 FPS.  this is a big drop in performance.  the only difference
>> seems to be that uvesafb module is not in use.
>
> I have been on squeeze for a few months, updating regularly. The FPS
> drop came with the upgrade to xserver-xorg 7.4, if I remember
> correctly. However, it seems to be a fix on the numbers, because
> noticeable performance has not decreased.
>
> The performance I see on the ao751h with fbdev drivers is about the
> same: 97 FPS on average. For comparison purposes, previous performance
> with the uvesa drivers was about half that. So, at least on my box,
> fbdev performs much better than uvesa. On the other hand, on my eeepc
> 900 with intel drivers, glxgears shows about 220 FPS.
>

Just notice that glxgears is not a good benchmark, you should use a
benchmark mode for the applications you care about, as said in:

http://cworth.org/intel/performance_measurement/

Santi