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 1GXH7B-00025p-O5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:53:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9ACoMkV000582; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:50:22 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 k9ACl0Eu021591 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:47:01 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4B78344F for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:51:17 +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 Fu4P-M9wq+hH for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:51:12 +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 CF2D183438 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:51:12 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:48:50 +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 14:47:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <452AD73D.3060605@gmail.com> <200610100902.45403.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <1160479292.13089.2.camel@orpheus> In-Reply-To: <1160479292.13089.2.camel@orpheus> 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-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610101447.42173.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Oct 2006 12:48:50.0062 (UTC) FILETIME=[6F0F9AE0:01C6EC6A] X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9ACl0Eu021591 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9ACoMl0000582 X-Archives-Salt: 456bceaf-09a0-4fc2-8fc6-f87c63ab3e25 X-Archives-Hash: dbd8e3493214b24e512afcc430203983 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!! > =A0That's right, FASTER! =A0*woot* > > anyway, I'm off to try composite :) After today's kernel upgrade to 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 I need some good=20 news, and it looks like this is it :-) I stopped tracking the progress of the radeon driver a long time ago=20 after I got fed up trying to watch full screen movies. The 9200SE in my=20 desktop (R280) ought to work nicely from what you say above. And with=20 luck the notebook video card will be supported as well: lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon=20 Mobility M300] If it all works well, then I can finally get composite working in KDE -=20 enabling it turns fglrx into a psychotic super-intelligent shade of the=20 colour blue and it disables dri alan --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list