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 1GXBvZ-0006qE-2b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:21:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9A7J8F2002908; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:19:08 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9A7BiH5017640 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:11:58 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A49F8347D for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:06:24 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Mxb0GaNRNNx5 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:06:24 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4520983499 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:06:13 +0200 (SAST) Received: from [192.168.2.146] ([192.168.2.146]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:03:50 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <452AD73D.3060605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <452AD73D.3060605@gmail.com> 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 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200610100902.45403.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Oct 2006 07:03:50.0124 (UTC) FILETIME=[3CEFBAC0:01C6EC3A] X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9A7BiH5017640 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9A7J8FG002908 X-Archives-Salt: 9d094595-7091-4b61-ab24-60cfebdf09b9 X-Archives-Hash: d81c502c86a17650135a2ed9c68e3c56 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" > > =A0 =A0 =A0#VideoRam =A0 =A0131072 > =A0 =A0 =A0# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Identifier =A0"** ATI Radeon (generic) =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0 =A0 =A0 [radeon]" > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Driver =A0 =A0 =A0"radeon" That's the open source driver, you get 2D acceleration, but not 3D.=20 For 3D you need to emerge ati-drivers and use the fglrx driver > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Option "AGPMode" "8" > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Option "AGPFastWrite" "1" > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Option "BackingStore" "true" > EndSection > [...] My experiences were that composite with the radeon driver were ... poor alan --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list