What do you mean by standard ati drivers?
Do you mean without direct rendering?
If so it was seemingly like 1/10th (or so) the speed, can't rember exact number but it could be just my system or a fluke.
(strange things happen). (oooooh scary).
Also on a further note (Card = Radeon 9700 TX - Odd Radeon).
So the performance might not be the same as one of the ol fandangled 9700 Pro's. Also on a last note, knoppix (prior to hd-install) always initially read my card as as a R300 base Radeon 9500.

As far as current numbers for glxgears go:
Running for a few secs nets me:
17860 frames in 5.0 Seconds = 3572.00 Fps
As far as current numbers for /usr/X11R6/bin/fgl_glxgears go:
Running for a few secs nets me:
1042 frames in 5.0 Seconds = 208.400 Fps

This might not be what your looking for,
but I hope it helps.

- Digitalpcht

PS: If one of you guys want's to hold on to em I can send the modified make.sh and make_install.sh just let me know.