Re: Slow 2D with radeon KMS

2010-02-16 Thread Damien Mir
> > That's it ! Thanks ! > > I have the feeling that OSS radeon/EXA have never been improving so fast. > Cheers from a happy end-user ! > After my recent discoveries about KMS, I've got a few questions about what KMS actually brings... I read some time ago that the performance drawbacks sometimes

Re: Slow 2D with radeon KMS

2010-02-15 Thread Damien Mir
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 16:34 +0100, Damien Mir wrote: >> > vsync was broken when intel merged the new vsync code. So you should >> > use mesa from time before the merge (about a week ago) >> > >> >> Unfortunately I cannot get vsync working anyhow with K

Re: Slow 2D with radeon KMS

2010-02-15 Thread Damien Mir
> vsync was broken when intel merged the new vsync code. So you should > use mesa from time before the merge (about a week ago) > Unfortunately I cannot get vsync working anyhow with Kwin compositing (KDE 4.3). Any combination of xserver (1.6 / 1.7 / 1.7.99) / Mesa (7.7 or git) gives the same res

Re: Slow 2D with radeon KMS

2010-02-13 Thread Damien Mir
>> However I see 2 performance issues : >> - glxgears tops at 1450fps (compared to ~2500fps without KMS) >> - GL vsync is broken, ie visual tearing especially at playing large >> videos >> (XV or OGL) with Kwin compositing enabled > > GL vsync got broken with the DRI2 swap buffers merge: > http://b

Re: Slow 2D with radeon KMS

2010-02-12 Thread Damien Mir
playing large videos (XV or OGL) with Kwin compositing enabled Any thoughts on this ? > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:35:44 +0100 (CET) > "Damien Mir" wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just tried KMS with "radeon" driver, and 2D seems notably slow. >> Widget

Slow 2D with radeon KMS

2010-01-30 Thread Damien Mir
Hi, I just tried KMS with "radeon" driver, and 2D seems notably slow. Widgets takes time to draw, scrolling in Dolphin or Firefox lags, as if some 2D acceleration was not working alright. Used latest 2.6.33rc5 kernel + drm modules from : http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jobermayr/o

Re: Blank screen on Radeon Mobility HD 4650

2010-01-12 Thread Damien Mir
What I did up to now : - upgrade to kernel 2.6.32 (from suse repository) - upgrade to latest xorg-server (from suse rep too, still 7.4) - compile xf86-video-ati from git. And it works ! Thanks a lot ! > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Damien Mir > wrote: >> Hi, >> >

Re: Blank screen on Radeon Mobility HD 4650

2010-01-12 Thread Damien Mir
Hi, Unfortunatelty it's not that simple... same result. By the way, in ubuntu xorg is already conf-less. Damien > Hi Damien, > > try to launch your X server without any xorg.conf > > provided hal debus and udev is running > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von

Blank screen on Radeon Mobility HD 4650

2010-01-11 Thread Damien Mir
Hi, I am experiencing a problem with my new laptop : Dell Studio 17'3 with Radeon Mobility HD 4650 running opensuse 11.2 or Ubuntu 9.10 When xorg invoked, the screen becomes blank and is deadlocked this way until the next reboot, and then KDE4 crashes. It occurs both with "radeon" and "radeonhd"

Re: Sluggish 2D with radeon Xpress 200M

2009-04-27 Thread Damien Mir
>> "AccelDFS" is enabled by default for PCI-E chips. >> In my case, no matter which option I tweak, I cannot get the very basic 2D >> performance I expected and got before, the "slugishness" increases in relation with the quantity of active windows on the desktops. (no flash or >> desktop effects,

Re: Sluggish 2D with radeon Xpress 200M

2009-04-27 Thread Damien Mir
>> With an old opensuse 10.0 with xorg 6.8 (32bit mode if relevant) on the >> same laptop, everything is stunning fast. With OS 11.1 & xorg 7.4, >> although it is not really horrible or unusable, there's definitely >> something wrong, it feels a little sluggish in comparaison. >> Btw. glxgears give

Re: Sluggish 2D with radeon Xpress 200M

2009-04-27 Thread Damien Mir
>> I recently installed Opensuse 11.1 on a HP Pavilion dv8000 ( with XPRESS >> 200M graphics ), shipped with Xorg 7.4 >> (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)" (ChipID = >> 0x5955) >> >> I am experiencing some kind of slow 2D performance, never seen before on >> any system or

Sluggish 2D with radeon Xpress 200M

2009-04-24 Thread Damien Mir
Hello, I recently installed Opensuse 11.1 on a HP Pavilion dv8000 ( with XPRESS 200M graphics ), shipped with Xorg 7.4 (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)" (ChipID = 0x5955) I am experiencing some kind of slow 2D performance, never seen before on any system or previous di