ATI Radeon Mobilty problems...
Hello! I've recently installed Suse 9.0 on my DELL latitude c610 laptop and most things works fine, except the X system. The problem is that my X system "freezes" for a short while (perhaps 1/4 of a second or less), roughly once a second. The most annoying part of this problem is that the mouse pointer doesn't move smoothly when I move the mouse around. And of course, playing movies of any kind is hopeless, since they also freeze whith the same frequency as the rest of the X system. Sound, on the other hand, is not affected. Anyway, here is my configuration: Kernel: 2.4.21-192-default (k_deflt-2.4.21-192) XFree86: XFree86-4.3.0.1-43 Gnome 2.2.2 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY /etc/X11/Xfree86config is gziped and attached. glxinfo: name of display: localhost:0.0 Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". display: localhost:0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4 OpenGL extensions: GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias glu version: 1.3 glu extensions: GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x23 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x24 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None 0x25 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None 0x26 24 tc 1 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None 0x27 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x28 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None 0x29 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None 0x2a 24 dc 1 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None I hope anyone has an idea about this whierd problem, or perhaps know where I should turn to get help. Thanks in advance! /Henrik -- ________________________________________________ Henrik Löwendahl-Nyrén, Systems Engineer, Student IT Karolinska Institutet, University Library Alfred Nobels allé 8:100, SE 141 83 Huddinge Mobile: +46 702 80 70 43 Telephone: +46 8 524 84 137 Fax: +46 8 524 84 310 Web: http://kib.ki.se - http://studentit.ki.se ________________________________________________
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 13:13, Henrik Löwendahl-Nyrén wrote:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
Without Direct Rendering Interface I can imagine X being slow. It looks like you're using the standard XFree86 radeon driver at 24 bit colour mode. I think you may be using 3D extentions (isn't glx used for this? I see it enabled in your config file), which I believe does not work in 24 bit colour mode. If you don't use 3D you might want to turn it off, and see if that helps. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 13:53, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 13:13, Henrik Löwendahl-Nyrén wrote:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
Without Direct Rendering Interface I can imagine X being slow. It looks like you're using the standard XFree86 radeon driver at 24 bit colour mode. I think you may be using 3D extentions (isn't glx used for this? I see it enabled in your config file), which I believe does not work in 24 bit colour mode. If you don't use 3D you might want to turn it off, and see if that helps.
I commented out the row where glx is loaded in XFree86config, but that didn't solve the problem. On the other hand, I noticed that the problem doesn't appear until Gnome is fully loaded. In the login screen (GDM), the mouse runs smoothely, and it continues to do so until Gnome is fully loaded. I started KDE instead, and there is no problem there. So maybe the problem isn't with X at all, but with Gnome. I think I'll take my problem to another list... Thanks anyways! :) Regards from Sweden! /Henrik L-N
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 15:56, Henrik Löwendahl-Nyrén wrote:
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 13:53, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 13:13, Henrik Löwendahl-Nyrén wrote:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". Without Direct Rendering Interface I can imagine X being slow. It looks like you're using the standard XFree86 radeon driver at 24 bit colour mode. I think you may be using 3D extentions (isn't glx used for this? I see it enabled in your config file), which I believe does not work in 24 bit colour mode. If you don't use 3D you might want to turn it off, and see if that helps. I commented out the row where glx is loaded in XFree86config, but that didn't solve the problem.
I did some tests on my own machine, and in order to get DRI I had to enable both glx and dri. Perhaps that's one last thing you could try.
I think I'll take my problem to another list...
*nod*, I hope the Gnome people will be able to help you with this one. You could of course consider switching to KDE. :) Regards, Pieter Hulshoff
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