On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Gábor Melis <m...@retes.hu> wrote: > GSR <gsr.b...@infernal-iceberg.com> writes: > >> Hi, >> daen...@debian.org (2011-02-11 at 1035.03 +0100): >>> On Fre, 2011-02-11 at 05:54 +0100, GSR wrote: >>> > Could you check MigrationHeuristic setting? And try with "greedy"? >>> This option doesn't have any effect with current upstream xserver and >>> KMS, and even with older xservers where it accidentally had an effect, >>> it's probably better to use the radeon driver option "EXAPixmaps" "off" >>> if you want to prevent acceleration on all pixmaps other than the >>> visible screen. >>> >>> Might be worth trying the current X server and driver in sid first >>> though to see if they're doing better. >> >> With KMS & 6.13.1-2+squeeze1 (Sid has 6.13.2-2, update scheduled in >> some days) removing MigrationHeuristic from xorg.conf gives acceptable >> speed, same than with it. So at some point in the past, the issue that >> required greedy was solved. The obvious test was >5 sec canvas >> refreshes in GIMP when repositioning the content. Thanks for the tip. >> >> GSR >> > > I have tested smart, greedy, exapixmaps on/off with EXA and 'options > radeon modeset=0'. They don't seem to have any noticable effect with the > exception of smart that made xorg segfault. Apart from that, the old > konsole font still makes konsole crawl and there are noise-like > artifacts on the icons in the taskbar and on window borders. > > Another data point is what my other, almost identical t60, does. With > kms it starts to flicker randomly as if vert sync were off. Sometimes it > rights itself for no apparent reason. It's unusable. Without kms there > is no flicker after a day of testing. The konsole font issue is still > there though. > > Note that the two machines have almost identical hardware: the first has > a slightly faster cpu and 3945ABG wireless, the second has a slower cpu > and AR5212 wireless. Furthermore, both have the same packages installed > (by now they both run squeeze) and the same xorg.conf. The module list > has very few differences and those are due to the different wireless > cards. BIOS settings are identical, too. BIOS versions are not quite the > same (2.20 and 2.26), but both are pretty recent (the second behaved the > same with 2.17 that's older than 2.20). Xorg logs are pretty much the > same. > > For the flickering, Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH" didn't help either.
There were some pll regressions in 2.6.37. Try 2.6.38-rc4 or newer. For reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26552 > > Gabor > > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg-driver-ati mailing list > xorg-driver-...@lists.x.org > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikw_vlqby30kz6st3nd+d+xq_dzdfuofrv+z...@mail.gmail.com