[ltp] Radeon Mobility M7 + XF86 4.3.0 = dead slow?

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Just a quick question. Have you got BackingStore enabled on the "slow"
machine?

El jue, 22-04-2004 a las 19:11, -0400, Jordi G. March escribió:

> I used to test X performance with Xmark, which needs x11perf to do the
> real testing... It's a very long test (4-5 hours with a 4-5 years
> card) and I haven't replayed it again, though... :-(
> 
> Have you noticed any improvements with XFree 4.4? Everybody says it's
> much faster, but Mandrake's cooker backported 4.4RC1 to 4.3 because of
> instability problems (I think...), so I'm stick with 4.3 by now.
> 
> Regards,
> Jordi
> 
> El jue, 22-04-2004 a las 12:09, Mika Fischer escribió: 
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have an R40 2722-CDG with the Radeon Mobility 7500 (M7) in it and was
> > quite happy with it until I saw the laptop of a friend of mine.
> > 
> > His laptop has a Radeon Mobility 9600 and an Athlon Mobile CPU.
> > 
> > Now what I witnessed is that on his laptop the display is updated very fast,
> > while on mine it's really really slow.
> > 
> > For example if I resize konqueror I can actually see the widgets being
> > redrawn. Redraws occur only about 3 to 5 times per second.
> > Scroling is also not smooth but skippy. Basically everything that involves
> > redraws is too slow for my taste.
> > 
> > We both run Debian Sid and I used the same XF86 configuration. In fact it
> > doesn't even make much of a difference whether I run in 1024x768@16bpp or
> > 1400x1050@24bpp...
> > 
> > Now I grant that his card is a little (or even a lot) faster than mine, but
> > I just can't believe that my card is really *that* slow.
> > 
> > Has anybody any idea what may be going on here or even has/had the same
> > problem? Any solutions/suggestions?
> > 
> > Is there a way to get more objective data on the graphic card's performance?
> > 
> > TIA,
> >  Mika
> 
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Just a quick question. Have you got BackingStore enabled on the &quot;slow&quot; machine?<BR>
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El jue, 22-04-2004 a las 19:11, -0400, Jordi G. March escribi&#243;:<BR>
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    <FONT COLOR="#000000">I used to test X performance with Xmark, which needs x11perf to do the real testing... It's a very long test (4-5 hours with a 4-5 years card) and I haven't replayed it again, though... :-(</FONT><BR>
    <BR>
    <FONT COLOR="#000000">Have you noticed any improvements with XFree 4.4? Everybody says it's much faster, but Mandrake's cooker backported 4.4RC1 to 4.3 because of instability problems (I think...), so I'm stick with 4.3 by now.</FONT><BR>
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    <FONT COLOR="#000000">Regards,</FONT><BR>
    <FONT COLOR="#000000">Jordi</FONT><BR>
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    <FONT COLOR="#000000">El jue, 22-04-2004 a las 12:09, Mika Fischer escribi&#243;: </FONT>
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<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">Hi!</FONT></I>

<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">I have an R40 2722-CDG with the Radeon Mobility 7500 (M7) in it and was</FONT></I>
<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">quite happy with it until I saw the laptop of a friend of mine.</FONT></I>

<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">His laptop has a Radeon Mobility 9600 and an Athlon Mobile CPU.</FONT></I>

<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">Now what I witnessed is that on his laptop the display is updated very fast,</FONT></I>
<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">while on mine it's really really slow.</FONT></I>

For example if I resize konqueror I can actually see the widgets being
redrawn. Redraws occur only about 3 to 5 times per second.
Scroling is also not smooth but skippy. Basically everything that involves
redraws is too slow for my taste.

We both run Debian Sid and I used the same XF86 configuration. In fact it
doesn't even make much of a difference whether I run in 1024x768@16bpp or
1400x1050@24bpp...

<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">Now I grant that his card is a little (or even a lot) faster than mine, but</FONT></I>
<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">I just can't believe that my card is really *that* slow.</FONT></I>

Has anybody any idea what may be going on here or even has/had the same
problem? Any solutions/suggestions?

<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">Is there a way to get more objective data on the graphic card's performance?</FONT></I>

<I><FONT COLOR="#737373">TIA,</FONT></I>
<I><FONT COLOR="#737373"> Mika</FONT></I>
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