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recommend drm card?



Hi,

I've got an older compaq computer with a spare pci-e slot I was thinking about 
buying a decent video card for it.  It has an integrated intel i915.  I was 
able to get drm working using 5.0:

total memory = 1527 MB
avail memory = 1489 MB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq dc7100 CMT(PP957US) ( )
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel 686-class, 3391MHz, id 0xf41
cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1: Intel 686-class, 3391MHz, id 0xf41
.....
i915drm0 at vga1: Intel i915G (unit 0)
i915drm0: AGP at 0xe0000000 256MB
i915drm0: Initialized i915 1.5.0 20060119

I ran glxgears and got about 500 or 600 fps.  But, it seems really slow, at 
least with the games I tried with wine.   Just for "fun", I briefly installed 
debian linux and got almost exactly the same perf with glxgears and same games 
...

The only site I could find with any kind of benchmarks was http://free3d.org/ , 
but that seems to be mostly for linux.  

Would it be worth trying another card for this machine or what cards work well 
with netbsd 5.0 and drm?

Thanks
J



      



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