The video performance is abysmally slow (on a motherboard with a quad-core CPU and 6GB of RAM); in particular things like "smooth scrolling" in Pidgin or PDF viewers are slow enough that it reminds me of 486-era graphics.  It's an order of magnitude worse than my old system was.  ASUS graphics card has 512MB of RAM, I noted a message about it only using 256 for some BIOS-related reason, but couldn't find anything settable in the BIOS. I can confirm this. Before I had my core i7, my Q9450 was working quite nicely with my HD3650. With the i7 it was terrible, until EXA was used. I think it has something to do with no being able to enable write-combining, but that's just a guess. Mark van Doesburg. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:

The video performance is abysmally slow (on a motherboard with a quad-core CPU and 6GB of RAM); in particular things like "smooth scrolling" in Pidgin or PDF viewers are slow enough that it reminds me of 486-era graphics.  It's an order of magnitude worse than my old system was.  ASUS graphics card has 512MB of RAM, I noted a message about it only using 256 for some BIOS-related reason, but couldn't find anything settable in the BIOS.

Is there any info I could get you that would help debug?   (Or is this an easy one I should have found via Google?  I did try...)

What version are you running? Are you trying the new EXA code? We need a bit more information. Please post your xorg log. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:

Sorry, I'd originally tried attaching the Xorg.log and the mail got rejected.  Uploaded to my server.

http://oddones.org/instantpics/pics/Xorg.0.log

This log is for an intel chip. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:

Doh!  Sorry, I got confused with tunneled X sessions and loaded the one from a different machine.  Corrected.

Log looks fine. It's using shadowfb which is software rendering and the default. If you want to try acceleration, you'll need to build the driver from git master and use the drm from Dave's drm-next tree or the r6xx-r7xx-support branch of the drm tree on fdo. http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd%3Ar6xx_r7xx_branch Alex

--Drew Van Zandt

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Alex Deucher wrote:

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:

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Sorry, I'd originally tried attaching the Xorg.log and the mail got rejected.  Uploaded to my server.

http://oddones.org/instantpics/pics/Xorg.0.log

This log is for an intel chip.

Alex

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