On Monday February 2 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
One lingering issue with my new 11.1 installation is the sluggishness with which text is drawn in Konsole windows. The same hardware running 10.0 and the SuSE-supplied video driver exhibited virtually instantaneous drawing of text pages in Konsole and very rapid scrolling.
I am now running the ATI / AMD proprietary driver, but a big reason I installed it was this very symptom under the openSUSE-supplied driver, which I incorrectly believed would be rectified by the proprietary driver.
Randall Schulz
Randall,
See my recent post on ATI performance issues. The last good ATI driver was 8-9, however with 11.1, you cannot install anything older than the 8-12 driver. If I were you, I would grab the brand new 9-1 driver and see what it is like on 11.1. I haven't played with 11.1 lately so I don't know what the driver situation is there aside from the fact that the 8-12 driver has broken 3D acceleration.
The driver I'm running is from the ATI / AMD repository (http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.1/) and the full version string is "8.561_2.6.27.7_9.1-1.1". Is that the 9.1 driver you refer to? It kind of looks like it is.
This issues isn't just screen slowness, I have noticed my entire system is bogged down by the recent ATI drivers with apps taking 50% longer to open and all display tasks being very sluggish. I just tried the 9-1 driver tonight and again went back to 8-9,
I've noticed what I think is a diffuse set of symptoms of drawing slowness of one sort or another. But in Konsole, where I spend a lot of time, is the most blatant and in sharp contrast to the performance I witnessed in SuSE Linux 10.0.
If you don't use compiz, you can get away with running the radeon driver, which for 2d work is respectable.
Actually, I removed the compiz packages in an attempt to recover good performance, since I don't use its capabilities, but it made not difference. Is the Radeon driver in the standard distribution? The only packages
The question remains though, Why the crappy performance out of every ATI Linux driver release since 8-10? As mentioned, I have submitted trouble tickets with ATI for every release since 8-9. Maybe if more of us did it, we would get some help with the issue.
It is perplexing an disappointing. Does Novell's Bugzilla have a voting system? If so, I'll vote for you tickets if you point me to them. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org