On Mit, 2011-10-12 at 22:54 +0200, Martin Stolpe wrote: > > I'm using the Gallium R300 driver with the Xorg state tracker on my system. > Everything is running very smoothly when I'm using OpenGL ES 2.0 composited > mode of kwin. Running for example Notepad++ in wine on the other hand is > painfully slow. I've tried to profile a Notepad++ session using oprofile but > it seems that the reason why for example scrolling is so slow is not catched > by oprofile. At least there is nothing which catches my eyes. I would have > expected that "r300_dri.so" or "r300_drv.so" would pop up in the profile log. > Is there a special way to profile graphics drivers?
Not really, but in the likely case that the slowness is relaeted to software rendering fallbacks, a lot of cycles may be spent in X server or libpixman code. I prefer sysprof or perf over oprofile, YMMV. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev