Re: mplayer slowness and kernel
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 18:35:05 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel: > > Florian Kulzer: > > > It seems that your xorg video driver has problems to use > > > hardware video acceleration with the newer kernel. (A problem > > > with DMA for hard drive or DVD access is also possible, but > > > less likely, IMHO.) > > > > > > What do you get from: > > > > > > lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|display|video|media' > > > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER > > (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24d5] (rev 02) > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 > > [Radeon 9200 SE] [1002:5964] (rev 01) > > 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 > > SE] (Secondary) [1002:5d44] (rev 01) > > I just want to mention that playing videos with the 2.6.29 kernel gives > the same problem here, not just with mplayer but with any video such as > Youtube videos played with the mozilla totem plugin; it looks as if a > buffer is almost constantly full. > AND my video card also is an ATI Radeon, so that's one more pointer in > the direction of the Radeon driver. > Let me show my output from the command above: > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM > (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5](rev 02) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 NE > [Radeon 9500 Pro] [1002:4e45] > 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 [Radeon > 9500 Pro] (Secondary) [1002:4e65] I remember more people complaining about performance problems with radeon cards and kernel 2.6.29; see also the warning that Jan Willem posted from his Xorg log: (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled AFAIK, kernel 2.6.30 is supposed to fix these issues. The Debian kernel team has recently made 2.6.30-rc5 kernel images available in /dists/trunk, so you could test this yourself without having to compile your own kernel: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mplayer slowness and kernel
Jan Willem Stumpel: > Florian Kulzer: > > It seems that your xorg video driver has problems to use > > hardware video acceleration with the newer kernel. (A problem > > with DMA for hard drive or DVD access is also possible, but > > less likely, IMHO.) > > > > What do you get from: > > > > lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|display|video|media' > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation > 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24d5] (rev 02) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc > RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] [1002:5964] (rev 01) > 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 > [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) [1002:5d44] (rev 01) I just want to mention that playing videos with the 2.6.29 kernel gives the same problem here, not just with mplayer but with any video such as Youtube videos played with the mozilla totem plugin; it looks as if a buffer is almost constantly full. AND my video card also is an ATI Radeon, so that's one more pointer in the direction of the Radeon driver. Let me show my output from the command above: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5](rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 NE [Radeon 9500 Pro] [1002:4e45] 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 [Radeon 9500 Pro] (Secondary) [1002:4e65] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mplayer slowness and kernel
Florian Kulzer wrote: > > It seems that your xorg video driver has problems to use > hardware video acceleration with the newer kernel. (A problem > with DMA for hard drive or DVD access is also possible, but > less likely, IMHO.) > > What do you get from: > > lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|display|video|media' 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24d5] (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] [1002:5964] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) [1002:5d44] (rev 01) > grep -Ei '^\((ee|ww)\)|xv|/drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log With 2.6.26 kernel: (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc". (WW) The directory "/usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Generic Keyboard (WW) Disabling Configured Mouse (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype (EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0) (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so (II) RADEON(0): Will try to use DMA for Xv image transfers (WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ... (WW) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION was: 0xf7fff000 is: 0xf7fff000 (WW) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffc0 is: 0xfc7ffc00 (WW) RADEON(0): Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmap" is not used With 2.6.29 kernel: (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc". (WW) The directory "/usr/local/share/dosemu/Xfonts" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' wi ll be disabled. (WW) Disabling Generic Keyboard (WW) Disabling Configured Mouse (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype (EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0) (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so (II) RADEON(0): Will try to use DMA for Xv image transfers (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled (WW) RADEON(0): Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmap" is not used Thanks for looking into this. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mplayer slowness and kernel
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 13:24:33 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > With the 2.6.29 kernel (from the linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 > package), playing a movie with mplayer uses up to 95% cpu. mplayer > becomes very slow and jerky, with "stuttering" sound, and "Your > system is TOO SLOW" warnings. No twiddling of mplayer's parameters > helps. > > When I go back to the slightly older 2.6.26 kernel > (linux-image-2.6.26-2-686), mplayer works properly again (about > 20% cpu usage and no warnings or "stuttering", even at full screen > size. It seems that your xorg video driver has problems to use hardware video acceleration with the newer kernel. (A problem with DMA for hard drive or DVD access is also possible, but less likely, IMHO.) What do you get from: lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|display|video|media' grep -Ei '^\((ee|ww)\)|xv|/drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (The second one for both kernels separately, please.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
mplayer slowness and kernel
With the 2.6.29 kernel (from the linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 package), playing a movie with mplayer uses up to 95% cpu. mplayer becomes very slow and jerky, with "stuttering" sound, and "Your system is TOO SLOW" warnings. No twiddling of mplayer's parameters helps. When I go back to the slightly older 2.6.26 kernel (linux-image-2.6.26-2-686), mplayer works properly again (about 20% cpu usage and no warnings or "stuttering", even at full screen size. Is this a known problem? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
