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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 10:24:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610101024.31494.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452B6EE7.4020800@gmail.com>

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:59, b.n. wrote:

> In fact, once tweaking xorg.conf for performance, composite works
> fast and quite well, apart from the occasional xorg CPU problem of my
> original mail. It seems more like a bug, however.
>
> > My experiences were that composite with the radeon driver were ...
> > poor
>
> I guess it depends from your card. ATI cards below 9200 are much
> better supported by "radeon" than newer cards. Until I can, I would
> prefer to stick with the OSS drivers.

I don't know the solution to the problem you are having, I can only give 
some tips from experience. My first trouble shooting step would be to 
use fglrx and see if it makes a difference. The you know if it's a 
driver issue or not. You don't have to keep using fglrx, consider it a 
debugging technique...

I do recall having issues with that card and xorg 7.0, but it was a long 
time ago so I don't remember details. Whatever it was went away with 
emerging 7.1 and using the latest ati-drivers.

Which wm do you use?

alan
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-10  8:28 UTC|newest]

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
2006-10-10  9:59   ` b.n.
2006-10-10  8:24     ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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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