From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GQv6M-00066K-An for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:10:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8N08dIO025265; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:08:39 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8N08cXO002987 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:08:38 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so1292115pyd for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:08:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QCBsl0W6d6SKLoCNf51qkFch2LA5ZUMRRJj8oHX+v0FARyL09dM/w2PCWeoK69In2DLLTZ1X/d52u8tctwrKjhzxjFedVhynGPnBwlgNBXdL2gfe0ocI7q5+7cuxCcBTAsMy2zDVJiGEu7SE8wDtKIHxSdU+AVWEM3XFT7ZggYU= Received: by 10.64.243.10 with SMTP id q10mr1485393qbh; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.156.16 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0609221708t53c0557bw30a746f548acffb5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:08:37 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone? In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0609221235i2270bbenf016d5fa7a1998ec@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0228a598-ae4e-43a7-9b2e-a91dc26b0a76 X-Archives-Hash: 76b0250dd67c4165069bfca65d394736 On 9/22/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: > "Mark Knecht" posted > 5bdc1c8b0609221235i2270bbenf016d5fa7a1998ec@mail.gmail.com, excerpted > below, on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700: > > > It turns out that for me the problem was the ati-drivers package. > > Switching to the radeon driver today lowered the CPU usage back to the 9% > > range that I was used to: > > Thanks! Always nice to see freedomware win. =8^) > I agree Duncan. Now, the one issue left for complete world domination would be to better understand how to get DRI working with this video adapter. Am I correct that DRI==3D? Or does DRI go further than just basic 3D and help other things like MythTV or something else I'm not thinking of at all? I do see these messages in xorg.0.log: (**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveMode returns 0x709390 (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support *** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500 *** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree. *** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is available from Mesa CVS. *** Additional information can be found on http://r300.sourceforge.net *** This message has been last modified on 2005-08-07. drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK) I do NOT do ANY Linux-based 3D stuff today. My workload is Mainly music applications - Ardour, etc., which do not care about 3D, web browsing, MythTV and Xine to watch movies. Do I / should I care about DRI? I do occasionally play Windows games under Cedega. Would DRI ever help that sort of application? Anyway, things seem to be in pretty good shape. Maybe I should just leave good enough alone. ;-) Cheers, Mark P.S. - I'm still curious about trying your compiler flags but now there is no pressing timeframe to do it in on this machine. - MWK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list