Description of problem: i915 drivers GL performance in rawhide is much lower than in FC5. After opening a bug at freedesktop #7654. The developer suggested getting a newer snapshot of the mesa-libGL driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mesa-libGL-6.5-19.fc6 How reproducible: Unknown Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: In FC6 ppacer gives 10-12fps compaired to FC5 giving 40-50fps on the same hardware. Between FC5 and FC6 the i810 driver was upgraded from 1.5 to 1.6 which had some major changes which exposed some problems in the mesa-libGL libs. Expected results: I would expect some performance changes due to new features and aiglx. But not more than 50% drop in performance. Additional info: The latest mesa-libGL package that is provided has improved 3d support alot (no longer flickers horribly) but there is still more work to be done
New mesa code is a big improvement... mesa-libGLU-devel-6.5-22.20060818cvs.fc6 mesa-libGLU-6.5-22.20060818cvs.fc6 mesa-libGL-devel-6.5-22.20060818cvs.fc6 mesa-libGL-6.5-22.20060818cvs.fc6 Allows ppracer to run around 18-22fps after install of new mesa. Performance is still not at the same level at FC5, but definately better. Also, on FC5, I was running metacity and no aiglx. And on FC6 I am running compiz and aiglx so the comparisons are not exactly the same. I would expect the machine running aiglx to be a bit slower.
Mesa 6.5.1 RCs have been in rawhide for a while now, closing.