Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (312 mails)

[Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/16/09, Andrew Varner <andrew.varner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 07:13 -0500, Matthias Hopf wrote:
>  > On Apr 15, 09 17:08:53 -0500, Andrew Varner wrote:
>  > > My video device doesn't work well with the radeonhd driver. Everything
>  > > works, but it is very slow. Fullscreen video (1280x1024) seems like its
>  > > about 5 frames per second. glxgears in fullscreen runs at about 3.5
>  > > frames per second.
>  > >
>  > > I'm using X.org X server version 1.6.0 and radeonhd version 1.2.5, all
>  > > from Debian unstable.
>  > >
>  > > It's about the same with the radeon driver or the vesa driver.
>  > > Strangely, before I upgraded from X server version 1.4.2, I was using
>  > > the vesa driver, and I think the performance was somewhat better.

There is no 3D driver yet for your chip, so 3D apps like gears will be
software rendered. For 2D and video, support is available however, you
will need newer drm kernel modules.  If your distro already includes
them you can just enable the dri and exa in your config; if not,
you'll need to build them:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd%3Ar6xx_r7xx_branch

Alex
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