[gentoo-user] Trouble with X.org and ati opensource drivers

[gentoo-user] Trouble with X.org and ati opensource drivers

[Alex Fansky]

Hello.
I have xorg 7.2.0, KDE 3.5.6 and 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 kernel. My processor is 
athlon 1700, video card is radeon 9200se. I cannot use proprietary ati 
drivers, because my video card is no longer supported. So the problem is that 
xorg loads processor too much(about 20-30%).

Also when I drag any window slowly with my mouse, It freezes for a little 
moment every N seconds. The same problem is when watching movies in mplayer - 
the picture freezes like the dragged window every N seconds.

Any ideas?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with X.org and ati opensource drivers

[b.n.]

Alex Fansky ha scritto:
> Hello.
> I have xorg 7.2.0, KDE 3.5.6 and 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 kernel. My processor is 
> athlon 1700, video card is radeon 9200se. I cannot use proprietary ati 
> drivers, because my video card is no longer supported. So the problem is that 
> xorg loads processor too much(about 20-30%).
> 
> Also when I drag any window slowly with my mouse, It freezes for a little 
> moment every N seconds. The same problem is when watching movies in mplayer - 
> the picture freezes like the dragged window every N seconds.
> 
> Any ideas?

I have almost your hardware configuration (ati radeon9200se, amd duron
1800), however I'm running stable (xorg 7.1, kde 3.5.5), and I have no
problems whatsoever (I'm even smoothly running aiglx+Beryl).

Have you checked the xorg logs/the system messages for strange things?
Did the problem occur when you switched to xorg 7.2? X use flags?

Do you have composite enabled but no aiglx/compiz/beryl? I remember
similar behaviour when I tried to use composite before the aiglx days.

Is direct rendering working?

Eventually use pastebin to post your xorg.conf, so that we can have a look.

m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with X.org and ati opensource drivers

[Alex Fansky]

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В сообщении от Saturday 03 March 2007 20:36:08 b.n. написал(а):

> I have almost your hardware configuration (ati radeon9200se, amd duron
> 1800), however I'm running stable (xorg 7.1, kde 3.5.5), and I have no
> problems whatsoever (I'm even smoothly running aiglx+Beryl).
>
> Have you checked the xorg logs/the system messages for strange things?
> Did the problem occur when you switched to xorg 7.2? X use flags?
>
> Do you have composite enabled but no aiglx/compiz/beryl? I remember
> similar behaviour when I tried to use composite before the aiglx days.
>
> Is direct rendering working?
>
> Eventually use pastebin to post your xorg.conf, so that we can have a look.
>
> m.
Well, I used aiglx+Beryl and everything worked fine on xorg 7.2. But after 
kernel upgrade I got this problem(I didn't forget to reemerge x11-drm).

Yes, direct rendering is working. Composite and aiglx are enabled too, I tried 
to disable them, but it gave no result. I even tried to disable direct 
rendering(dri,drm,glx modules in xorg.conf) but also without result.

Here is my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log
http://pastebin.com/892943

lsmod output:

diablo diablo # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
iptable_filter          3456  0
ip_tables              13668  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               13188  1 ip_tables
snd_pcm_oss            41632  0
snd_mixer_oss          16128  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss            32128  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7424  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50896  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          7564  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
radeon                116512  2
drm                    74136  3 radeon
fuse                   40340  0
snd_intel8x0           30108  1
snd_ac97_codec         96160  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            3072  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                72196  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              20228  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    46692  9 
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7392  2 snd
snd_page_alloc          8968  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
radeonfb              106560  0
fb_ddc                  3200  1 radeonfb
nvidia_agp              7708  1
agpgart                27852  2 drm,nvidia_agp

Thank you for your help.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with X.org and ati opensource drivers

[b.n.]

Alex Fansky ha scritto:
> Well, I used aiglx+Beryl and everything worked fine on xorg 7.2. But after 
> kernel upgrade I got this problem(I didn't forget to reemerge x11-drm).

Ok, so it's the new kernel fault (I'm running 2.6.18, in fact). It
wasn't so clear for me from the previous post, sorry.

My lsmod looks different from yours in (maybe) relevant entries:

spca5xx               646544  0
vmnet                  24748  15
vmmon                 163724  0
radeon                100320  3
drm                    63444  4 radeon
radeonfb               94400  0
fb                     45160  1 radeonfb
i2c_algo_bit            8840  1 radeonfb
cfbcopyarea             3968  1 radeonfb <----
cfbimgblt               3328  1 radeonfb <----
cfbfillrect             4032  1 radeonfb <----
i2c_core               20800  2 radeonfb,i2c_algo_bit <----
ehci_hcd               27208  0
sis_agp                 8772  1
agpgart                30732  2 drm,sis_agp

but I don't know exactly what do they mean.

> Here is my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log
> http://pastebin.com/892943

I found nothing suspect. Only significant differences with mine are:
- I don't have the "RENDER" extension enabled
- I have some optimizations in the "Device" section:

Section "Device"
    #VideoRam    131072
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
	Identifier  "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
	Driver      "radeon"
	Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
	Option "AGPMode" "8"
	Option "AGPFastWrite" "1"
	Option "BackingStore" "true"
	Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
	Option "DRI" "true"
	Option "GARTSize" "64"
	Option "EnablePageFlip" "1"
	Option "ColorTiling" "1"
EndSection

however if it was all working perfectly before, I don't think this would
make a difference...

In the meantime a double check of your old vs new kernel configs seems
the best way to go (and also a look on gentoo bugzilla, of course). I
fear I can't tell you much more.

m.
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