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 14:47:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610101447.42173.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160479292.13089.2.camel@orpheus>
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 13:21, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > 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
>
> actually the open source radeon driver support for 3D is getting
> better all the time!
>
> As of x11-base/x11-drm-20060608 there is support for the 9600 (RV350
> based) which there never was before.
>
> In fact, x11-drm gives me FASTER frame rates that fglrx 8.29.6!!
> That's right, FASTER! *woot*
>
> anyway, I'm off to try composite :)
After today's kernel upgrade to 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 I need some good
news, and it looks like this is it :-)
I stopped tracking the progress of the radeon driver a long time ago
after I got fed up trying to watch full screen movies. The 9200SE in my
desktop (R280) ought to work nicely from what you say above. And with
luck the notebook video card will be supported as well:
lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon
Mobility M300]
If it all works well, then I can finally get composite working in KDE -
enabling it turns fglrx into a psychotic super-intelligent shade of the
colour blue and it disables dri
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
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 [this message]
[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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