From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P9EXg-0002s4-Qf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:08:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D46C9E0852 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:08:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7BEE05FC for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0LAO008S8QXV48D0@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:41:55 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.58,222,1286143200"; d="scan'208";a="78050886" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:41:55 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id o9M9ftAC017208 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:41:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3A3967 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:41:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:41:51 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.8 Message-id: <1287740511.17612.1@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: bf1f716b-6928-42d8-9c70-378f7d0cf571 X-Archives-Hash: 9ecf61cdb8245bb2672b0841cb618eac Hi, this is a bit off topic, since it primarily concerns a laptop running OpenSuSe 11.3, but I do need your help and I known there are experts here. This old laptop has a radeon RV350 (mobility Radeon 9600 M10) graphics card. There is an xf86-video-ati driver installed. Now, when booting with the (default) radeon.modeset=1 the graphics is dead slow (not only for glxgears : 200 frame/s but for my OpenGL application (Impressive), as well). Now, when I replace the option on the kernel command line to radeon.modeset=0 glxgears is much faster ( about 1800 frames/s ) BUT my OpenGL application (python gtk + opengl) now freezes the whole machine - only power on/off can revive it. Hopefully, someone has an idea on what is going wrong here. (The hardware is too old for a recent ATI closed source driver supporting a recent kernel 2.6.34.x) Many thanks for your help which is very much appreciated. Helmut.