2006/9/23, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 9/22/06, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted
> below, on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700:
>
> > It turns out that for me the problem was the ati-drivers package.
> > Switching to the radeon driver today lowered the CPU usage back to the 9%
> > range that I was used to:
>
> Thanks! Always nice to see freedomware win. =8^)
>
I agree Duncan.
Now, the one issue left for complete world domination would be to
better understand how to get DRI working with this video adapter. Am I
correct that DRI==3D? Or does DRI go further than just basic 3D and
help other things like MythTV or something else I'm not thinking of at
all?
I do see these messages in xorg.0.log:
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveMode returns 0x709390
(WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support
*** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500
*** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree.
*** A very experimental (and incomplete) version is available
from Mesa CVS.
*** Additional information can be found on http://r300.sourceforge.net
*** This message has been last modified on 2005-08-07.
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
I do NOT do ANY Linux-based 3D stuff today. My workload is Mainly
music applications - Ardour, etc., which do not care about 3D, web
browsing, MythTV and Xine to watch movies. Do I / should I care about
DRI?
I do occasionally play Windows games under Cedega. Would DRI ever help
that sort of application?
Anyway, things seem to be in pretty good shape. Maybe I should just
leave good enough alone. ;-)
Cheers,
Mark
P.S. - I'm still curious about trying your compiler flags but now
there is no pressing timeframe to do it in on this machine. - MWK
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