[Bug 1075296] Re: nomodeset needed for radeon 7000

2012-11-13 Thread hpkeck
I tested this with Fedora 17 to check if it is Ubuntu-specific but it isn't - 
Fedora behaves similar.
So I filed a bug report with freedesktop.org:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57027

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #57027
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57027

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[Bug 1075296] Re: nomodeset needed for radeon 7000

2012-11-11 Thread hpkeck
BTW, I briefly tested this on oneiric and it's the same situation there,
so it's not really a new problem...

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[Bug 1075296] Re: nomodeset needed for radeon 7000

2012-11-11 Thread hpkeck
I analysed this problem further and found out that all videos are played using 
the Xvideo extension by default (on precise). This is different from lucid, 
where the Xvideo extension doesn't seem to be available (xvinfo reports that no 
driver was found).
If I force the video player to use the x11 driver (e.g. mplayer -vo x11 ...) I 
get a better performance (on precise). BTW, the bug seems to exist in Debian as 
well, because this description is quite similar to what I am experiencing: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672972

What I do not understand so far:
1. Why does it help to boot with "nomodeset"? Somehow the kernel modesetting 
seems to be involved.
2. Should Xvideo be enabled? Because it wasn't on lucid, but it seems that it 
has been enabled earlier (see 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9305/xvideo-extension-not-active-with-the-radeon-driver).
 Which component is responsible for enabling it? It doesn't seem to be the Xorg 
radeon driver, because if I use an old version that is similar to the one used 
in lucid (I compiled 6.13.1 myself), Xvideo is still enabled on precise.

I will continue investigating...


** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #672972
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[Bug 1075296] Re: nomodeset needed for radeon 7000

2012-11-05 Thread Joseph Salisbury
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Incomplete

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[Bug 1075296] Re: nomodeset needed for radeon 7000

2012-11-05 Thread hpkeck
moved to linux kernel package, which contains the modesetting

** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu)

** Tags added: apport-collected precise

** Description changed:

  I recenty started to migrate from Lucid (10.04) to Precise (12.04). 
Unfortunately, I have noticed that the video rendering performance has 
decreased with Precise. Videos with a resolution of about 720x576 that are 
played smoothly on Lucid are either flickering or shortly hanging in-between 
while played on Precise (the standard video player tends more to flickering, in 
vlc I get hangs).
  I should mention that I have a quite old graphics card, it is identified by 
the X server as
  Chipset: "ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP/PCI)" (ChipID = 0x5159)
  
  After experimenting around quite a while I found out that I get back the
  old performance if I boot with "nomodeset", so I guess there's a bug in
  kernel modesetting.
  
  BTW, the output of "uname -a" is
  Linux faramir 3.2.0-32-generic-pae #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 26 21:54:23 UTC 
2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
+ 
+ --- 
+ AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
+ ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
+ Architecture: i386
+ AudioDevicesInUse:
+  USERPID ACCESS COMMAND
+  /dev/snd/controlC0:  piet   2050 F pulseaudio
+ CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 
not found.
+ Card0.Amixer.info:
+  Card hw:0 'V8237'/'VIA 8237 with ALC850 at 0xe800, irq 22'
+Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC850 rev 0'
+Components : 'AC97a:414c4790'
+Controls  : 49
+Simple ctrls  : 30
+ Card2.Amixer.info:
+  Card hw:2 'UART'/'MPU-401 UART at 0x300, irq 10'
+Mixer name : ''
+Components : ''
+Controls  : 0
+Simple ctrls  : 0
+ Card2.Amixer.values:
+  
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
+ HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=f8b00408-9845-97bf-7c8b-0408a45ef8b7
+ InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328)
+ IwConfig:
+  lono wireless extensions.
+  
+  eth1  no wireless extensions.
+  
+  eth0  no wireless extensions.
+ MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
+ Package: linux (not installed)
+ ProcEnviron:
+  TERM=xterm
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
+ ProcFB:
+  
+ ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-32-generic-pae 
root=UUID=b90b85f9-e205-4221-97b3-a64bbbd735a1 ro nomodeset
+ ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic-pae 3.2.30
+ RelatedPackageVersions:
+  linux-restricted-modules-3.2.0-32-generic-pae N/A
+  linux-backports-modules-3.2.0-32-generic-pae  N/A
+  linux-firmware1.79.1
+ RfKill:
+  
+ Tags:  precise
+ Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686
+ UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
+ UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
+ WifiSyslog:
+  
+ dmi.bios.date: 11/03/2005
+ dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
+ dmi.bios.version: 0219
+ dmi.board.name: A8V
+ dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
+ dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
+ dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
+ dmi.chassis.type: 3
+ dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
+ dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
+ dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0219:bd11/03/2005:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnA8V:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
+ dmi.product.name: System Product Name
+ dmi.product.version: System Version
+ dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

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