* Dave Airlie ([email protected]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running an RV710 on 2.6.33-rc2 and it works great without KMS; > > but with KMS it's a lot slower and I can see X eating a lot of CPU > > even when not much is happening. > > > > It seems to start off OK, but then really starts eating it - I've > > seen X eating ~80% of one core running a simple flash game, and even > > saw the system when apparently idle eating over 50% of one core > > (but that stopped after reboot). The CPU is an i7-860. > > The time in that last idle case all seems to be userspace time, > > strace'ing X shows it was doing a lot of ioctl's to the DRI. > > > > I'm running X 1.6.5 (I'm using the Ubuntu xorg-edgers packages for > > everything > > other than the kernel; I'm on Ubuntu 9.10 as the base system). > > > > I've included two xorg.0.log's; one with kms and one without. > > > > If you need any other debug, just ask. > > Get a new X server really is the answer, 1.7.x has improved EXA > mainly to deal with kms drivers. radeon KMS on pre-1.7 servers isn't > something I'd forsee a distro wanting to ship.
With a newer X server it works great. I'm now running 1.7.99.2 (still on 2.6.33rc2), using the xorg-edgers packages for Ubuntu Intrepid. Great work! Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
