Re: xorg-driver/xf86-video-ati-6.14.0: Worse performance since last update
On 03/08/11 19:32, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:16:05PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Since the last update of Xorg stuff, including the xf86-video-ati-6.14.0, the video performance of all of our AMD/ATi-driven boxes went worse. The bad performance also occur with the recommendations made in ports/UPDATING for driver "radeon". Without those recommendated adding of options even with a working xorg.conf file the performance stays worse. The recommendations have been removed from UPDATING; with the exception of the "DynamicPM" option, all the others are at their default settings and therefore not necessary. All right, I already adjusted my xorg.conf towards the initial state ... Worse means: using vlc (also after recompilation after upgrades made!), videos are massively bumpy and can not be watched with vlc-screen fully expanded to 1900x1200 pixel with HD4830 graphics card - this worked perfectly before. Check out the logfile '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' if you see anything unusual. Well, for the untrained eye there seems nothing wrong, except the non-existent acceleration ... see below. Moving windows around now looks like having chunks of video content floating around - as on unaccelerated/slow graphics boards. When looking at the logfile '/var/log/Xorg.0.log', does it say the following; (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled (II) RADEON(0): Set up textured video I see this: (II) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0x00ef00d0 0x001f (II) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0x003f (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled Personally, I have built this port with one of the patches removed. In my case the patch in question hung my machine every time! (there was quite a large thread about it on the mailing-list) Try removing the patch /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati/files/patch-src-radeon_driver.c and re-install the driver. If that works you can make the change permanent like this: # cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati/files # truncate -s 0 patch-src-radeon_driver.c # chflags schg,sunlnk patch-src-radeon_driver.c Roland Well, yesterday or two days ago there was a change of the port x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati. The file patch-src-radeon_driver.c has gone. But the problems still occur (but not that harsh as before). I realize on all AMD driven graphicsystems this "bumpyness", even on those graphics cards, HD4830, which are supposed to deliver a acceptable performance for every day's usage, show now a kind of being cut-off and they are no longer faster than the crappy HD4670 or HD4770 which we also use in some FBSD 9.0 boxes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: xorg-driver/xf86-video-ati-6.14.0: Worse performance since last update
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:16:05PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > Since the last update of Xorg stuff, including the > xf86-video-ati-6.14.0, the video performance of all of our > AMD/ATi-driven boxes went worse. > The bad performance also occur with the recommendations made in > ports/UPDATING for driver "radeon". Without those recommendated adding > of options even with a working xorg.conf file the performance stays worse. The recommendations have been removed from UPDATING; with the exception of the "DynamicPM" option, all the others are at their default settings and therefore not necessary. > Worse means: using vlc (also after recompilation after upgrades made!), > videos are massively bumpy and can not be watched with vlc-screen fully > expanded to 1900x1200 pixel with HD4830 graphics card - this worked > perfectly before. Check out the logfile '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' if you see anything unusual. > Moving windows around now looks like having chunks of video content > floating around - as on unaccelerated/slow graphics boards. When looking at the logfile '/var/log/Xorg.0.log', does it say the following; (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled (II) RADEON(0): Set up textured video Personally, I have built this port with one of the patches removed. In my case the patch in question hung my machine every time! (there was quite a large thread about it on the mailing-list) Try removing the patch /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati/files/patch-src-radeon_driver.c and re-install the driver. If that works you can make the change permanent like this: # cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati/files # truncate -s 0 patch-src-radeon_driver.c # chflags schg,sunlnk patch-src-radeon_driver.c Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpyjsOAE8sqs.pgp Description: PGP signature
xorg-driver/xf86-video-ati-6.14.0: Worse performance since last update
Since the last update of Xorg stuff, including the xf86-video-ati-6.14.0, the video performance of all of our AMD/ATi-driven boxes went worse. The bad performance also occur with the recommendations made in ports/UPDATING for driver "radeon". Without those recommendated adding of options even with a working xorg.conf file the performance stays worse. Worse means: using vlc (also after recompilation after upgrades made!), videos are massively bumpy and can not be watched with vlc-screen fully expanded to 1900x1200 pixel with HD4830 graphics card - this worked perfectly before. Moving windows around now looks like having chunks of video content floating around - as on unaccelerated/slow graphics boards. What's wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"