Why glxgears is slower with Kernel Modesetting (and why it doesn't matter)

[RahulSundaram]

Hi

Another one of those rawhide changes

http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/7869.html

[sideways]

But you know some people can't cope if glxgears isn't optimal ;)

glaxium is another easy benchmark with more sophsiticated gl calls. Unfortunately the install brings in the huge PersonalCopy-Lite-patches rpm which might put people off.

[Hlingler]

Proving once again that glxgears is an extremely poor benchmark measurement. Personally, I find hardinfo's FBENCH (FPU RayTracing) test to be accurate enough for meaningful results.

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