On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 08:49 -0500, William Lovaton wrote:
> El dom, 16-11-2008 a las 12:23 +0100, Dietz Proepper escribió:
> > You:
> > > El dom, 16-11-2008 a las 00:28 +0100, Dietz Proepper escribió:
> > > > You:
> > > > > El mar, 11-11-2008 a las 14:59 +0100, Dietz Proepper escribió:
> > > > > > William Lovaton:
> > > > > > > Does anyone know if there is something similar for fglrx binary
> > > > > > > driver (ATI cards)?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes - a recent fglrx. The behaviour should be history for at least
> > > > > > 10 months now.
> > > > >
> > > > > mmm... I'm still seeing fglrx waking up the CPU a lot.  Can you tell
> > > > > me what configuration option do I have to set in order to solve
> > > > > this? may be you could point me to some forum or something.
> > > >
> > > > Iirc the problem with about 70 wakeups/s from fglrx was fixed in the
> > > > driver around Jan 2008. No special config options were necessary.
> > > > Which version do you use?
> > > >
> > > > Apart from that, as already stated, I can only talk for a Radeon
> > > > Mobility X1400, perhaps other chipsets behave different.
> > >
> > > I'm using the latest from RPMFUSION:
> > > kernel-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686
> > > xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.543-0.4.8.11beta.fc9.i386
> > 
> > OK, should be recent enough.
> > 
> > > The funny thing is that compiz works fine but I do not have 3D
> > > acceleration.  If I run glxgears it only shows 320 fps when I know the
> > > card can give me 9000 fps.
> > 
> > Eh? Either fglrx is not working or something else is using the GPU.
> > 
> > > But the most important thing for me are the wake ups.
> > 
> > Du they occur if the system is idle? (And nothing that might produce GPU 
> > load is running?) If you're really doing 3D stuff, I'd expect interrupts 
> > to rise.
> 
> Nope, I'm not using any 3D, compiz was a test to see if it worked and it
> really did.
> 
> The real issue for me is that I have a great 22" monitor and my digital
> photo camera takes amazing videos of very good quality and I want to see
> them full screen on my computer.  The problem is that anything different
> than the proprietary driver plays the videos with poor quality, very
> pixeled and completely smooth-less.
> 
> I tested radeonhd and I really liked that driver, the fonts on my
> desktop look beautiful with it but the video playback is still poor.
> 
> So, the real option for me is fglrx.  And it really works for me, the
> videos are now reproduced with very good quality and they look great in
> full screen now.
> 
> The only issues left to solve for me are:
> 1) The wake ups in powertop
> 2) 3D acceleration isn't workin.  If I have to use fglrx it would be
> really nice to have 3D working.  For instance gltron runs very slow.
> 
> Do you know any fglrx linux forum? curiously enough I can't find any.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> -William
> 
> 
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You can try this patch:
http://phorogit.com/index.php?p=fglrx-packaging.git&dl=plain&h=a94205d6bb86dbf154c3e519b6da869c529cafe4
works with ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run
won't work with the new xorg 7.4
(but intrepid seems to have it working);
probably won't work with patch -p1 < *
manually adding the patch works.
should work with the latest git
(at least a week ago);

regards;
-- 
Justin P. Mattock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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