[ale] ATI closed source graphics drivers

[Dow Hurst]

What is the graphics chip/engine on the Viao?  2300 is not fast, I would 
want to get 8K-12K on glxgears in the default window size.  If you 
specify the window to be full screen and post those results that will 
reduce the numbers and match performance to a certain vertical and 
horizontal resolution.  Of course post the window size too!  Thanks for 
the data point!
Dow


James Taylor wrote:

>This may be a little late, but I've used the the ATI commercial driver on the Vaio I got a couple of weeks ago, and it is working quite well.  It was a little more involved than point and click for the install, but the directions worked like a charm on SuSE Pro 9.3.  I had previously used the open source drivers on a Thinkpad, but I couldn't get the commercial drivers to work.  I think I had a glxgears number around 1200 on that one.
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>With the open source driver on the Vaio, I had a glxgears number around 330, but went improved to about 2300 with the commercial driver.
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>-jt
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>James Taylor
>The East Cobb Group, Inc.
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>>>>Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com  >>>
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>Thanks everyone for the advice!  I am completely impressed with the 
>Nvidia driver.  We have a professor that will be purchasing a Dell 
>Precision workstation soon and wanted advice on using the stereographics 
>Crystal Eyes product.  After investigating I found this out:
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>www.stereographics.com is the web link
>The Crystals Eyes package does require a Vertical Refresh rate on a CRT 
>monitor to be at or above 100Hz!
>It won't work with LCD monitors due to the above criteria
>A good CRT is getting harder to find due to all the LCD popularity.
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>Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB= $699.99
>Iiyama Vision Master Pro 514 HM204DT= $629.42
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>Are both capable of the 100Hz Vertical refresh at 1600x1200.  I think 
>the Iiyama is better based on the specs.
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>The Nvidia cards and driver support using the stereo devices with the 
>three pin DIN port to sync the glasses to the monitor's oscillating 
>output of two images.  It is wireless as well.  You can't use it with 
>dual screens though since each program that is coded to support the 
>product hasn't been designed to handle two monitors.  I'm sure it could 
>be done, but the tech guys at stereographics said the glasses would work 
>for the monitor the program was displayed on but the other monitor would 
>look weird since the programs displayed there would not be producing the 
>stereo output.  I'd love to get to experiment but I think only one 
>monitor will get purchased at this point.
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>None of the above info is about ATI but I appreciated what everyone 
>posted and thought I'd pass on this nugget about the stereo product.  It 
>will be used to look at structures from protein crystallization 
>processes on the computer inside of x-ray crystallographic modelling 
>programs.  She also will use stereo vision to help see ligands being 
>docked inside the active site of the same proteins she has 
>crystallized.  It is too expensive to own the equipment to collect the 
>spectra so national labs contract with researchers such as herself to do 
>the x-ray tests.  Then she takes the data and works on her systems to 
>interpret, visuallize, and work with the data.
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>Thanks,
>Dow
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>Dow Hurst wrote:
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>>Does the ATI driver work as well as the Nvidia one?  I don't have an 
>>ATI based machine to try on.  It would sure make choosing a laptop 
>>easier for me or recommending one for others.  I just need to be able 
>>to recommend hardware accelerated OpenGL based performance on a laptop 
>>but don't want a 10lb monster.
>>Thanks,
>>Dow
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