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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Helmut Jarausch |
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<jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> this is a bit off topic, since it primarily concerns a laptop running |
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> OpenSuSe 11.3, but I do need your help and I known there are experts |
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> here. |
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> This old laptop has a |
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> radeon RV350 (mobility Radeon 9600 M10) graphics card. |
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> There is an xf86-video-ati driver installed. |
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> Now, when booting with the (default) radeon.modeset=1 |
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> the graphics is dead slow (not only for glxgears : 200 frame/s but for |
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> my OpenGL application (Impressive), as well). |
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> Now, when I replace the option on the kernel command line to |
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> radeon.modeset=0 |
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> glxgears is much faster ( about 1800 frames/s ) |
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> BUT my OpenGL application (python gtk + opengl) |
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> now freezes the whole machine - only power on/off can revive |
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> it. |
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> Hopefully, someone has an idea on what is going wrong here. |
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> (The hardware is too old for a recent ATI closed source driver |
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> supporting a recent kernel 2.6.34.x) |
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> Many thanks for your help which is very much appreciated. |
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> Helmut. |
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I have a very similar card in my Gentoo laptop (Mobility Radeon 9700, |
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I think maybe it's the same as 9600 but clocked higher). I tried KMS |
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radeon driver but had some issues, maybe it was user-error but when I |
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disabled KMS everything went back to normal. |
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Otherwise if you want to stick with KMS all I can think of is to try |
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different AccelMethod settings in your xorg.conf to see if you get |
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better performance from one of them. I think maybe you need to disable |
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console framebuffer as well, in case you're using one. |
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