Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:11:12 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> Subject: Re: dri + ATI: dramatic performance slowdown Message-ID: <1240326672.14628.32.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20090421162650.a0ef7477.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <20090420152620.8f89edd5.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <op.usp9qiyt8527sy@82-170-177-25.ip.telfort.nl> <20090421162650.a0ef7477.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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--=-xrlDBH2sp1Ep+65Nvbad Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:26 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Ronald Klop wrote: >=20 > > X.org is quite good in autodetecting your hardware and running without = a =20 > > config. It works for me out-of-the-box with my Radeon HD 2400 XT and =20 > > Radeon HD 2600 XT. (But I'm not using agp.) > > You can also try the xf86-video-ati driver. It works very well with 2d = =20 > > accell. (I'm using it also.) >=20 > When I tried xf86-video-ati in the past, it didn't deteced my ChipID so I > was forced to use the radeonhd driver (I even have to manually patch the > official generic AMD/ATI Windows XP driver to get support for my > card ;)). > I now retested the driver and my Xorg was left unresponsible after my > loginmanager slim tried to fire up my windowmanager. I only could kill it > from an other system, switching back to the console and back to X11 left > my Xorg in an unkillable state while eating up all my CPU time. So for my > xf86-video-ati is not an option :( >=20 > I'm also not sure how the RV610 or RV630 chipsets are different to my > RV670. (--) PCI:*(0@1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc RV670PRO [Radeon HD 3850] rev 0, M= em @ 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xfe8e0000/65536, I/O @ 0x0000b000/256, BIOS @ 0= x????????/65536 I am running this right now... Though, it is PCI-E, not AGP... Works with both radeon and radeonhd drivers (current from ports). I expect the issue is with AGP, but you need to be setting Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" on your hardware as well. robert. --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-xrlDBH2sp1Ep+65Nvbad Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAknt4hAACgkQM4TrQ4qfROOlmgCfdGeSSH2WOgG/s6AD1ub8apjc 2wAAn1CCXN5+j8U0yMhcH1rH2qsjbrM4 =PF6L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xrlDBH2sp1Ep+65Nvbad--
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