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 1GeL1v-000154-Ah for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:29:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9U0RPnR004500; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:27:25 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (thunder.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9U0PIMk001022 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:25:19 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2414C302 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:25:14 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness) From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:55:07 +0930 Message-Id: <1162167907.31044.29.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e2cf889d-9898-4dba-a694-c671962873e6 X-Archives-Hash: 98345cac473bc8308ae512f3628474d1 On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 13:36 +0100, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, > the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running > xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. what aiglx flag? $ equery u xorg-server | grep -i aiglx $ > After having enabled it > xorg started running with AIGLX (using compiz or beryl). > Although the system is quite usable there is still an issue: i thought > the system would have relied completely on video card acceleration. > However whenever i run an AIGLX effect such as the cube or just window > moving the CPU goes up to 80-90% during all the time the effect is > running. This behaviour makes the system A LOT less responsive than it > is without AIGLX. > Is this a known issue? I think it can depend on the driver. With some versions of ati-drivers, the CPU is used to help the GPU, and I get great frame rates. With other version of ati-drivers (including 8.28.8 and 8.29.6) the cpu usages stays low for all 3d, and I get crap framerates... don't know if this is your issue, but it sounds similar. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If you knew what to say next, would you say it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list