On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Dieter Baron wrote:
>> What kind of hardware? How's glxgears look?
>
> pchb0: Intel 82855PM MCH Host Controller (rev. 0x03)
> agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000
> vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: ATI Technologies FireGL Mobility T2 (M10) NT (rev. 0x80)
> radeondrm0 at vga0
> info: [drm] ATI FireGL T2/T2e (unit 0)
> info: [drm] AGP at 0xd0000000 256MB
> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524
>
>  glxinfo:
>
> OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 1x TCL
> OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.2
>
>  glxgears, fullscreen (1600x1200):
>
>  Without DRI: 27FPS, 100%CPU
>  With DRI:   145FPS,  20%CPU

Are you running with AGP enabled? It over doubled my performance once I 
enabled it, and I'm seeing about 296 fps fullscreen (1680x1050).

pchb0: VIA Technologies product 0x0314 (rev. 0x00)
agp0 at pchb0 (v3): aperture at 0xf0000000, size 0x10000000
vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: ATI Technologies Radeon 9800PRO NH (rev. 
0x00)
radeondrm0 at vga0
info: [drm] ATI Radeon NH R350 9800 Pro (unit 0)
info: [drm] AGP at 0xf0000000 128MB
info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524


Cheers,
Jared