DRI configuration?

[Landser]

Uhm.. Sorry, I didn't know where to post this (even though it's related to gaming a bit)

Anyway, I discovered a possible way to improve performace for DRI accelerated graphics adapters and I want to confirm it.

NOTE: This only works if your graphic card supports direct rendering
Type glxinfo in a terminal and look for the line "Direct rendering:"

According to this: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ConfigurationInfrastructure

.. It's possible to configure DRI to use various features of your graphics adapter (i.e. Anisotropic filtering etc.)

First, install driconf:
sudo apt-get install driconf

This is a configuration utility that saves you the hassle of editing the drirc file manually

Now type driconf, you should see something like this:
http://fileanchor.com/43524-t.jpg (http://fileanchor.com/43524.jpg)

I'm kinda shocked that my radeon 9250 has such a load of options,
this might apply for other radeons too...

Can someone test this and post the results? This looks interesting

EDIT: This seems to work, it gave me an extra boost of 300+ FPS on glxgears :)


PS: Did anyone beat me to this? (I mean does anyone else know about this?)

[simplyw00x]

Yeah, I've been using this for months. I may have mentioned it in my HOWTO compile radeon DRI drivers from source thread. I can't remember. I'm using a Radeon 9200 SE and it gave a signifacnt performance boost when I enabled HyperZ, but nothing else made a _great_ deal of difference.

[Anpu]

Hi, I have ati 9250.
I installed DRIconf, but when I start it, it says:
Could not detect any configurable direct-rendering capable devices. DRIconf will be started in expert mode.

And then it opens window with 2 files listed from left side. Thats it. In console it says:
Driver "r200" is not installed or does not support configuration.

I have Mesa 7.0.1 installed.

I need to enable S3TC compression. Do u know how I can do it since I dont have options in DRIconf or how I can fix that can DRIconf works normally?

ty :)

[Anpu]

I solved problem. Thx a lot to Ubuntu Srbija and user Smoki :)

[sperlyjinx]

Anpu, how did you solve the problem? I am having the same issue.

[XeviMetal]

Anpu, how did you solve the problem? I am having the same issue.

Me too. Anpu could you please help us?