On 01/12/2014 01:26 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 01/07/2014 09:48 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:
I've done a great deal of searching & I can't seem to find a useful solution.
I finally got around to getting my old 11.1 install running on my Thinkpad A30p with Radeon Mobility 7000. With 12.3, The video performance is slow, and I can't get MPlayer to play a video at all. With 11.1, I can play an x264 480p video with no problem. The laptop has a Tualatin P3/1.2Ghz & 1GB RAM.
I've found all kinds of suggestions, like turning off KMS or creating an xorg.conf file and changing accelmethod from EXA to XXA. Turning off DRI made no differnce.
Larry,
As I mentioned in my quick reply to your last thread. I suspect the issue is due to the fglrx driver no longer being available for your card. It was in the 11.1 timeframe IIRC in the move from Xorg 7.2 to 7.3 where ATI dropped support for all 1600 (1800?) and earlier graphics cards. If you check on your 11.1 install (if you still have it available) I suspect your will find that your were using the proprietary ATI driver:
[21:19 zephyr/home/david] # lsmod | grep fglrx fglrx 1818912 23 agpgart 50868 2 fglrx,ati_agp
The difference between the fglrx driver and the standard radeon/radeonHD driver is "orders of magnitude" in performance. With the fglrx driver, kde+compiz would spin the cube like a top, without the fglrx driver, you could watch paint dry waiting for the cube to appear.
If that is the issue, then the stock radeon (or radeonHD) will be your only option -- as well as the performance that comes with it. Search the archives here and on the factory list for 'fglrx' and you will find a dissertation on the Xorg versions as well as the date/time and models affected.
I have a couple of laptops in that category with ATI Mobility chipsets:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
The stock radeon driver gives decent performance, it is just a hell of a lot slower than with fglrx.
As an alternate point of information, my older radeon X1400 (aka rv505) is supported by the community redeon driver as is the Mobility 7000 (ala rs250). I'm using the Xorg packages from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_12.3/ There are equivelent directories for 13.1, etc. It provides Xorg 7.6, as well a updated community drivers for ATI. This version supports the desktop cube switching mode very well without FGLRX. But I don't run compiz version of that. Wobbly windows also works. In fact I can run with most of the bling turned on without problems. So if you are running the stock xorg for your distro, you might want to try adding the above repository and setting vendor change on for that. -- Explain again the part about rm -rf / -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org