Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (145 mails)

[Marc MERLIN <marc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:01:05PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> * Marc MERLIN (marc@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
>   |>  Using radeon instead works, but is pretty slow for 3d:
>   |>  1613fps glxgears, 14fps lavalite, and google earth takes 5mn to zoom on 
> a
>   |>  spot.
>   |>  
>   |>  Is that expected?
>
> I wouldn't have said so. I have left unsolved the issue you raised earlier, 
> i.e. this one:
>
>   |>  > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so failed
>   |>  > (/usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so: undefined symbol: glapi_tls_Context) 
>   |>  > (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
>
> So I have only software rendering. Nevertheless, glxgears shows:
>
>    9827 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1965.287 FPS
>
> and google-earth is very agile. I update the drm kernel modules from
> the git repository at freedesktop.org fairly regularly (using Tormod
> Volden's easy-drm-modules-installer script), and I noticed that the
> most recent update produced a significant improvement in performance. 
> I think you probably know about this script already, but in case you
> don't, it's here:
>
>   http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/xorg-server/xorg-pkg-tools/files
>
> In my case the modules are compiled against the 2.6.26.2 kernel (which
> might, I suppose, make a difference),

I built the latest radeon.ko from git and googleearth now works reasonably
with radeon (some small display bugs, but just artifacts).
With radeonhd, it still hangs pretty early on on 3D, but I'm set with the
radeon driver for now.

Thanks,
Marc
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