[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-03-05, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

> Is it possible using standard Gentoo,

Yes.

> or do I have to load a proprietary driver?

Yes.

> In either case, what are the steps to follow?

Use standard Gentoo to install the proprietary driver:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers

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[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-03-09, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:43:29PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>> On 2007-03-05, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > In either case, what are the steps to follow?
>> 
>> Use standard Gentoo to install the proprietary driver:
>> 
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
>
>   Later... that very same evening... OK, I've installed ati-drivers with
> /etc/make.conf containing    VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fglrx"
>
>   I did "eselect opengl ati", ran aticonfig, and did the setup as per
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers (including reboot and
> re-install of ati-drivers)

Run glxinfo and check the first few lines.  What does it say
for "direct rendering:" ?

I'm guessing it says "No".

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[gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-03-09, Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Walter Dnes wrote:
>>   I did "eselect opengl ati", ran aticonfig, and did the setup as per
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers (including reboot and
>> re-install of ati-drivers)
>> 
>>   Testing with glxgears, I get...
>> waltdnes@m3000 ~ $ glxgears 
>> 7492 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1498.333 FPS
>>   googleearth still runs^H^H^H^H^H crawls under OpenGL.
>
> Yep - not that impressive, did you try the Xorg Radeon driver?

The "radeon" driver doesn't support DRI on cards that recent.

> Using the same test on inferior HW (2xPIII 1.26Ghz + MSI
> Radean 9550) with "radeon" driver I get:
>
> 8931 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1786.100 FPS

That's not going to make a noticable difference.  You have to
have DRI to make Google Earth usable. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:18:53PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote

> Run glxinfo and check the first few lines.  What does it say
> for "direct rendering:" ?
> 
> I'm guessing it says "No".

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, 
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method, 
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe, 
    GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_ARB_multisample, 
    GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_ARB_multisample
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X300/X550 Series Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6234 (8.32.5)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Friday 09 March 2007, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 
[Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?':
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:18:53PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>
> > Run glxinfo and check the first few lines.  What does it say
> > for "direct rendering:" ?
>
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes

Well, then you have DRI working.

You might enable/disable some driver options and/or server extensions to 
get the best speed out of your DRI.

> server glx vendor string: SGI

However, it looks like you might be using the wrong driver or glx library; 
I've fairly sure this is supposed to be 'ATI' when using fglrx.  Anything 
interesting in grep -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

[Walter Dnes]

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In-Reply-To: <200703100155.58144.bss03@volumehost.net>

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:55:57AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote

> Well, then you have DRI working.
> 
> You might enable/disable some driver options and/or server extensions to 
> get the best speed out of your DRI.
> 
> > server glx vendor string: SGI
> 
> However, it looks like you might be using the wrong driver or glx library; 
> I've fairly sure this is supposed to be 'ATI' when using fglrx.  Anything 
> interesting in grep -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

  A few items of interest.  I actually ran
grep -A5 -B5 -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
and then trimmed down a bit.

1)
1609-(**) Extension "XVideo" is enabled
1644:(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
1718-(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel
1756-(II) Module ABI versions:
1782-   X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3

  I assume that this means no screensaver.


2)
21946-(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Dec 12 2006 17:18:27
22013-(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Information: autobuild-rel-r6-8.32.2.1.2.3-driver-lnx-x86-x86_64-313294
22125-(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
22187:(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:5:0:1) found
22263-(--) Chipset RADEON X300/X550 Series (RV370 5B60) found

  lspci shows 2 entries for the video card...
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]

  What is the second entry dupposed to be for?

3)
(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
(II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x1
(II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
(==) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor
(**) fglrx(0): Video overlay enabled on CRTC1

  Does this matter at all?

4)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:5:0:0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 8
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports PCI:5:0:0
(EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

  "reverting to software rendering" ouch.  This is probably it.  Now
what?

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[gentoo-user] Forget about it already

[Walter Dnes]

  I've just unmerged ati-drivers and gone back to regular mode.

  1) Windows emulation is all and good, but I can do without the hard
lockups, thank you.

  2) In addition to random lockups, I lost the ability to run X at
lower resolutions like 640x480, 512x384, and 400x300.  This is both via
xrandr and via custom modelines.  I prefer to run videos at these lower
resolutions, rather than take the cpu hit for software scaling to get
the videos to a reasonable size.

  3) Firefox fonts suck in fglrx mode versus regular mode.  Since I used
the old xorg.conf, I don't see why that should happen.

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