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On 9/22/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> posted |
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> 5bdc1c8b0609221235i2270bbenf016d5fa7a1998ec@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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> below, on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700: |
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> > It turns out that for me the problem was the ati-drivers package. |
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> > Switching to the radeon driver today lowered the CPU usage back to the 9% |
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> > range that I was used to: |
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> Thanks! Always nice to see freedomware win. =8^) |
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I agree Duncan. |
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Now, the one issue left for complete world domination would be to |
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better understand how to get DRI working with this video adapter. Am I |
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correct that DRI==3D? Or does DRI go further than just basic 3D and |
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help other things like MythTV or something else I'm not thinking of at |
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all? |
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I do see these messages in xorg.0.log: |
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(**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveMode returns 0x709390 |
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(WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support |
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*** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500 |
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*** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree. |
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*** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is available |
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from Mesa CVS. |
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*** Additional information can be found on http://r300.sourceforge.net |
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*** This message has been last modified on 2005-08-07. |
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drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 |
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drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK) |
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I do NOT do ANY Linux-based 3D stuff today. My workload is Mainly |
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music applications - Ardour, etc., which do not care about 3D, web |
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browsing, MythTV and Xine to watch movies. Do I / should I care about |
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DRI? |
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I do occasionally play Windows games under Cedega. Would DRI ever help |
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that sort of application? |
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Anyway, things seem to be in pretty good shape. Maybe I should just |
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leave good enough alone. ;-) |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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P.S. - I'm still curious about trying your compiler flags but now |
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there is no pressing timeframe to do it in on this machine. - MWK |
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