Upgrade from Debian stable to testing
I upgrade the Debian Lenny on my old laptop to Debian testing brunch this weekend.
Now I have more latest version of packages.
Gnome is upgraded to 2.3. The new icon theme is much better than 2.2.
Grub 2.0 with eye candy background is also okay.
The Totem movie player from Gnome finally can play the rmvb and avi movies.
The full screen flash can work in current Google Chrome 8.0.552.208 beta.
The new kernel version 2.6.32 has replaced the old one. The latest open source ATI driver is upgraded as well.
BTW. The latest open source driver requires the non-free ATI firmware which now is in the Debian non-free repository.
The bad thing is the ATI mobility Radeon X300's 3D acceleration seems not okay.
Before upgrade the FPS of glxgear is above 1000+ FPS. But now it drops to 100 FPS.
The 3D acceleration is enabled which is indicated by the Xorg.log.
One forum thread points out that the glxgear does not reflect the real OpenGL benchmark. The Lib Mesa should be upgraded.
So, I updated the Mesa to the latest version 7.9. But latest Mesa lib didn't bring any help.
Moreover, the Google earth can get the whole system hangs in current environment. This must be related to the low OpenGL FPS.
The Jython from Debian repository can not be integrated within the eclipse pydev.
So I removed the Debian Jython and install the Jython 2.5.2 from the official Jython website.
Everything else seems quite good in the Debian testing.
I should keep searching on the solution for this 3D acceleration problem.
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