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I have been playing around with a bunch of different things trying to improve the 3D performance of the Radeon 7500 mobile in this laptop. I've seen glxgears scores up in the 1000 range, and even saw one guy scoring 1400+...

I am getting a mere 220fps right now so I figured I'd document my journey to better fps. In the past I have seen big gains by enabling SBA and FastWrites, but this was on desktop Nvidia cards (a 6600gt and 6800)... This mobile 7500 probably won'ttake to overclocking very well (and I'm not going to overclock it to wring another 30fps out) so I'll have to focus on driver compatibility and tweaking. BTW, my A643200+@2.5ghz/1gb pc4000/gf6800@450/850 yields about 12000fps, and my Semp2800@2.0ghz/1gb pb4000/gf6600gt@536/974 averages around 7000fps. When I started they were 8000fps and 5000fps respectively.

UPDATE: I've just gotten the DRI on my laptop working properly. I am now getting 1800+fps running glxgears (up from 220 a half hour ago). I simply went to http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/ and downloaded the most recent radeon package (it was built this morning). I untar'ed it, ran the install script, killed gdm, unloaded the radeon driver, and restarted gdm... Problem solved! A little tuning with driconf (enable HyperZ and change TCL to software) is giving me a solid 2045fps.. wow, that is almost a 1000% improvement!

The preceding has been an excerpt from 8cylinder.org