From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PAIEC-0000CZ-P6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:16:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47B90E06C8; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.tech.numericable.fr (smtp2.tech.numericable.fr [82.216.111.38]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0E9E06C8 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:15:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (abo-240-18-68.rns.modulonet.fr [85.68.18.240]) by smtp2.tech.numericable.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA99E18D81F for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:15:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CC53CB2.7000002@numericable.fr> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:15:46 +0200 From: Jacques Montier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100910 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card References: <1287740511.17612.1@numa-i> <1287993000.27117.1@numa-i> In-Reply-To: <1287993000.27117.1@numa-i> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 809fab8d-27e2-4b4b-9b79-b1a43bd7aad2 X-Archives-Hash: ddd661f6ffc129d716cf7feee227f477 Hi all, I have an old RV350 9600 ATI graphic card and the open source radeon driver works fine with 2.6.36 kernel. Cheers, -- Jacques Le 25/10/2010 09:50, Helmut Jarausch a gentiment tapote: > Hi Paul, > > it turned out there is a bug in the linux kernel up to and including > 2.6.36 concerning > drivers/gpu/drm/radeon > when it comes to all graphics chips like RV350. > > Does anybody know about a patch for gentoo-sources-2.6.36 ? > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut. > > > On 10/22/10 17:04:24, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Helmut Jarausch >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> this is a bit off topic, since it primarily concerns a laptop >> running >>> OpenSuSe 11.3, but I do need your help and I known there are >> experts >>> here. >>> >>> This old laptop has a >>> radeon RV350 (mobility Radeon 9600 M10) graphics card. >>> >>> There is an xf86-video-ati driver installed. >>> >>> Now, when booting with the (default) radeon.modeset=1 >>> the graphics is dead slow (not only for glxgears : 200 frame/s but >> for >>> my OpenGL application (Impressive), as well). >>> >>> Now, when I replace the option on the kernel command line to >>> radeon.modeset=0 >>> glxgears is much faster ( about 1800 frames/s ) >>> BUT my OpenGL application (python gtk + opengl) >>> now freezes the whole machine - only power on/off can revive >>> it. >>> >>> Hopefully, someone has an idea on what is going wrong here. >>> >>> (The hardware is too old for a recent ATI closed source driver >>> supporting a recent kernel 2.6.34.x) >>> >>> Many thanks for your help which is very much appreciated. >>> Helmut. >> I have a very similar card in my Gentoo laptop (Mobility Radeon 9700, >> I think maybe it's the same as 9600 but clocked higher). I tried KMS >> radeon driver but had some issues, maybe it was user-error but when I >> disabled KMS everything went back to normal. >> >> Otherwise if you want to stick with KMS all I can think of is to try >> different AccelMethod settings in your xorg.conf to see if you get >> better performance from one of them. I think maybe you need to >> disable >> console framebuffer as well, in case you're using one. >> >> >> >