From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to > 80%
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:02:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610100902.45403.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452AD73D.3060605@gmail.com>
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 01:11, b.n. wrote:
> I should be using a fully hw-accelerated Xorg, however. I have an ATI
> Radeon 9200se card with the following options:
I have the same card, but I don't have the problems you are having
>
> [...]
> Section "Device"
>
> #VideoRam 131072
> # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
> Identifier "** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon]"
> Driver "radeon"
That's the open source driver, you get 2D acceleration, but not 3D.
For 3D you need to emerge ati-drivers and use the fglrx driver
> Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> Option "AGPMode" "8"
> Option "AGPFastWrite" "1"
> Option "BackingStore" "true"
> EndSection
> [...]
My experiences were that composite with the radeon driver were ... poor
alan
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-09 23:11 [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to > 80% b.n.
2006-10-10 6:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-10 7:02 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-10-10 9:59 ` b.n.
2006-10-10 8:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-10 11:21 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-10 12:47 ` Alan McKinnon
[not found] ` <200610101546.08306.grimlog@gmx.de>
2006-10-10 23:11 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-10 17:34 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-10 20:53 ` b.n.
2006-10-10 20:24 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-10 20:25 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-10 23:10 ` b.n.
2006-10-10 23:06 ` Ryan Tandy
2006-10-11 2:07 ` b.n.
2006-10-11 12:07 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
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