[ltp] New Xorg ATI video drivers sloooow (in Fedora 10)

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:50:04 -0500


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Matthias Runge <mrunge@matthias-runge.de> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Matthias Runge <mrunge@matthias-runge.de> wrote:
>>> Phil Shotton wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm getting around 1800 fps with this driver on a T60p (ATI 5250).
>>>> Earlier versions were giving me around 1900 fps, but I don't think the
>>>> difference is significant as I haven't standardised the tests. Looks
>>>> like something else is stopping 3d being fast.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Phil
>>>>
>>> Good to know, the dirvers work (at least for you).
>>> "something else" caused me to ask, if someone knows something about it
>>> or ran into the same troubles.
>>> As I said, any suggestions are warmly welcome.
>>
>> Can you post or pastebin your xorg log somewhere?
>>
>> Alex
> Hello Alex,
>
> sure I do:
> Xorg.log: <http://www.matthias-runge.de/Xorg.0.log>
> xorg.conf <http://www.matthias-runge.de/xorg.conf>

The log looks fine.  I suspect there may be issues with the versions
of the radeon/drm/mesa RH is shipping in F10 due to the memory
management and KMS changes.  You might want to try stock versions for
comparison.

Alex