[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Is this fixed in Ubuntu 10.10? If yes please close the bug. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Yes, it it is fixed and the new 6.13.1 or 6.13.2 driver should be back-ported in Lucid. On 11/5/10, Fabio Pedretti pedre...@eco.unibs.it wrote: Is this fixed in Ubuntu 10.10? If yes please close the bug. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “xserver-xorg-video-ati” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati When watching video files (with Totem, VLC, etc.), the performance is very poor. It does NOT matter whether compiz effects are on or off. When they're off, the performance is slightly better but the flickering is more. One more thing... if a file is watched in full-screen, the performance is so poor that the video is lagging behind the sound. The situation is again slightly better, if the compiz effects are off. Mobility X1600 in use. This is very weird because I thought that ver. 6.13 and KMS on will bring the much anticipated better performance. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.13.0-1ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon May 10 14:56:45 2010 DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx - Release amd64 (20100429) PccardctlIdent: Socket 0: no product info available PccardctlStatus: Socket 0: no card ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=397633f3-bc98-413f-88c5-4a868c82b526 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati dmi.bios.date: 07/11/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: 68YAF Ver. F.1D dmi.board.name: 309F dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.board.version: KBC Version 54.3D dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68YAFVer.F.1D:bd07/11/2008:svnHewlett-Packard:pn:pvrF.1D:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn309F:rvrKBCVersion54.3D:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr: dmi.product.version: F.1D dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory system: distro: Ubuntu codename: lucid architecture: x86_64 kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/578224/+subscribe -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Closing. It should be nominated for Lucid to have any chance of being fixed there. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
should the bug be closed if the issue is fixed in the maverick version? -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
@Sebastien - I believe that is the normal procedure, yes. @Miro - are you able to test with the Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat beta Live CD? -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Yes, the problem is gone with 2.6.32, too. So it's only the driver version. Will you backport the needed code if my presumption is correct? -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
I'm not an Ubuntu package maintainer but a backport to Lucid is probably unlikely as it would fall outside the definition of an SRU. You can monitor the package status at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /xserver-xorg-video-ati You will probably need to keep using the PPA you mentioned in comment 15. The new radeon driver is already in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat alpha 3 if you want to test the live CD. -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
That would be handy. Some info on the xf86-video-ati 6.13.1 driver can be found at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=ODM5OQ -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Today I tried 2.6.34 (for Lucid) and the default 1.7 X Server with KMS Color Tiling enabled to no effect. -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
So I suppose it's the driver version because the problem is gone now. I used this PPA - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates to update the X.Org packages and there the only update that actually matters is the radeon driver version which is 6.13.1. Solved with: kernel - 2.6.34 final (for Lucid from the mainline Kernel PPA) xorg-server - 1.7.6-2ubuntu7.3 radeon driver version - 6.13.1 Regards, Miro -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Do you want me to test the fix with the default kernel 2.6.32? -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Hmm, interesting. This sounds a bit like John Bridgman's comment which I pasted in the first part of comment #6. I have a Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb. I'm using KMS and can play videos fine so there must be more to this than just colour tiling. It would be interesting to know what the difference is between the openSUSE 11.3 rc1 and the kernel 2.6.34 + X Server ver. 1.8.1 rc1 that you tried. Perhaps the Mesa version? Or the xserver-xorg-video-ati driver version? Were you using the Ubuntu xorg-edgers PPA? -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Though I made a clean reinstall of Ubuntu because of the experimental state of xorg-edgers' PPA packages, I'll retest and see again what is the situation now. I'm going to update the packages from: 1. 2.6.35-rc3 - http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc3-maverick/linux- image-2.6.35-020635rc3-generic_2.6.35-020635rc3_i386.deb 2. https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Colour Tiling in openSUSE 11.3 rc1 is not enabled by default but there are no such problems with the video decoding (even when Compiz effects are on). xorg 1.8, kernel 2.6.34 in use. -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Note that if you do enable colour tiling you may get the issue described at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28381 ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #28381 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28381 -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
I'm going to wait a little. Now the system is running without KMS support and the performance is pretty much the same as in Ubuntu 9.10. I'll retest with xorg ver. 1.9 and Kernel ver. 2.6.35 when they're pulled in the Ubuntu Maverick repo. Thanks for your efforts, madbiologist! -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
xorg.conf is no longer created by default with newer versions of the xserver. But you can make one - see the beginning of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Video and also see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Window%20corruption%20with%20older%20ATI%20graphics%20cards -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
In the Phoronix forums I found this post by AMD Linux's John Bridgman: Note that the KMS performance hits are highly system-specific - eg on balance my system feels as fast or faster with KMS than with UMS. I think the limiting factor is CPU power (ie the KMS code uses more CPU cycles than the UMS code), so it's extra important to make sure that your power management settings aren't slowing down the CPU when you need it. Also, from your XorgLog: (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (ChipID = 0x71c5) (II) RADEON(0): PCIE card detected (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling: disabled In the same thread on the Phornix forums I found this: KMS is slower because color tiling in DDX is disabled by default. You need to enable it in xorg.conf, see man radeon. The man page is for UMS so it lies sometimes. The relevant section of the radeon manpage is: Option ColorTiling boolean -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
There is sth more. When KMS is on, there is flickering/tearing while watching videos. And there is no 'xorg.conf' in '/etc/X11'... -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
Nope. No effect (or at least not so apparent) can be seen with 2.6.34 and X Server ver. 1.8.1 rc1. P.S. Sorry for this question but why the importance of the bug is not set? -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
** Summary changed: - [ati radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance + [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 578224] Re: [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance
It's worth a try. Besides the initial Radeon power management support (more of that coming in 2.6.35), kernel 2.6.34 includes several other Radeon DRM changes, including this one: commit c9ff04c941d2cd87d27496d7fee8923238bb2ebb Author: Jean Delvare Date: Tue May 11 14:01:45 2010 +1000 drm/radeon: Fix 3 regressions - since buffer rework Commit b4fe945405e477cded91772b4fec854705443dd5 introduced 3 bugs, fix them: * Use the right command dword for second packet offset in RADEON_CNTL_PAINT/BITBLT_MULTI. * Don't leak memory if drm_buffer_copy_from_user() fails. * Don't call drm_buffer_unprocessed() unless drm_buffer_alloc() and drm_buffer_copy_from_user() have been called successfully first. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Cc: Pauli Nieminen Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie I don't know enough to be sure, but the first one of those might improve performance. There is also another patch which might reduce/eliminate tearing during video playback. -- [radeon driver] (regression) poor video decoding performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
