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On 03/22/2011 03:32 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:45:54 Dale wrote: |
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>> Bill Longman wrote: |
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>>> On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: |
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>>>> On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: |
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>>>>> On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: |
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>>>>>> I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved |
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>>>>>> it by switching back to the classic Mesa (instead of Gallium). |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Thanks Jorge, |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> I switched to classic too and now it does not crash - however: |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> 1. When I start kde compositing is disabled. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> 2. If I click on Resume Compositing, then the first time I try it I get |
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>>>>> a notification saying: "Compositing has been suspended by another |
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>>>>> application" and it remains disabled. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> 3. The second time I try to resume compositing it works! |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> 4. If at that stage I exit/restart KDE compositing is disabled again |
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>>>>> ... o_O |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Why is this happening? What other application is clashing or causing |
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>>>>> compositing not to take? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> BTW, I just tried this on an older Pentium 4 32bit box with an ATI |
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>>>> Radeon X600 (RV380) and it is exhibiting similar symptoms, except that |
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>>>> if I try to resume compositing a second time kwin crashes. |
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>>> |
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>>> I have an AMD Phenom II X4 940 with an Radeon 4870 that loves to crash |
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>>> when I turn on compositing. OpenGL works wonderfully until it crashes |
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>>> kwin. XRender chews up so much CPU I'd rather not have it. |
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>>> I have an AMD Athlon II X4 635 with an onboard Radeon 4200 that loves to |
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>>> crash when I turn on compositing. |
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>>> Both these boxes have SB700/SB800 chipsets. I use xdm on the former and |
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>>> manually run X on the other. Same problem on both. |
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>>> I did not have this problem in xorg-server 1.7 series. |
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>> I have a very similar setup and it works fine here, AMD Phenom II X4 955 |
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>> Deneb 3.2GHz with a Nvidia GT-220 video card. I also have the |
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>> SB700/SB800 chipset as well, Gigabyte mobo. The biggest difference I |
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>> see is the video card as far as hardware is concerned. |
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>> Software, I'm on xorg-server-1.9 here. I never tried the older series |
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>> on this rig. I also still have a xorg.conf file too. May not matter |
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>> but just upgraded to a 2.6.38 kernel. Also, no hal here either which is |
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>> why I went with that xorg version during my install. |
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>> I hope this little bit of info helps in some small way. If you need |
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>> more info about my setup, let me know. |
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> |
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> So this seems like the xorg-1.9 driver won't play nicely with ATI video cards. |
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> FYI mesa classic seems to be better than gallium, although both crash. As |
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> already reported xrender works, but eats up resources. |
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> |
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> Will have to wait for later versions it seems. |
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Well after fifteen minutes of no crashes, here are my settings: |
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$ emerge -pv xorg-server mesa cairo $(qlist -IC x11-drivers) |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/radeon-ucode-20110106 0 kB |
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[ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-7.9.1 USE="classic nptl -debug -gallium |
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-gles -llvm -motif -pic (-selinux)" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon -intel -mach64 |
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-mga -nouveau -r128 -savage -sis -tdfx -via -vmware" 0 kB |
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[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.5 USE="ipv6 kdrive nptl udev |
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xorg -dmx -doc -minimal -static-libs -tslib" 0 kB |
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[ebuild R ] x11-libs/cairo-1.10.2-r1 USE="X opengl qt4 svg xcb |
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(-aqua) -debug -directfb -doc (-drm) (-gallium) (-openvg) -static-libs" 0 kB |
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[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0 0 kB |
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[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.5.0 0 kB |
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[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.6.0 0 kB |
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[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.0 0 kB |
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My kernel is 2.6.36-r5 gentoo-sources running on the AMD Athlon II X4 |
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machine: |
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$ zgrep RADEON /proc/config.gz |
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CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m |
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CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y |
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CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y |
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CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y |
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CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y |
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# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set |
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Wonderfully wobbly windows once again, without widespread (and |
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unwelcomed) untimely terminations. |