Reply With QuoteO my God! you use 8-6????Originally Posted by peppo
9-2 is stable and 9-3 will come fast!
and on ubuntu9.04 9-4 runs like hell!
Poor performance with 8.6 on Ubuntu Jaunty with Radeon Mobility HD 3470
Running Ubuntu Jaunty, the prerelease fglrx (8.6) on a Vaio VGN-FW21M (2.4GHz Core Duo, 4GB RAM) and a Radeon HD Mobility 3470 (256MB VRAM).
2D performance is abysmal! I can actually see window redraws when switching between applications. Using compositing in metacity is not an option, as basic operations become unbearably slow.
Should I not expect better performance from this driver, or may there be a bug or issue I'm running into?
xorg.conf is a clean one generated by aticonfig --force --initial.
Here are some performance data:
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Thu Mar 26 17:02:29 2009
GtkEntry - time: 0,05
GtkComboBox - time: 1,59
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 1,03
GtkSpinButton - time: 0,22
GtkProgressBar - time: 0,35
GtkToggleButton - time: 0,33
GtkCheckButton - time: 0,41
GtkRadioButton - time: 0,76
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0,94
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0,49
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 1,37
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 10,15
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 16,66
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1,47
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Total time: 35,83
fgl_glxgears:
$ fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
1957 frames in 5.0 seconds = 391.400 FPS
2666 frames in 5.0 seconds = 533.200 FPS
2428 frames in 5.0 seconds = 485.600 FPS
2836 frames in 5.0 seconds = 567.200 FPS
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8575
XOrg 1.6.0
Performance when using "ati" is just as bad, or a bit worse.
Clues?
O my God! you use 8-6????
9-2 is stable and 9-3 will come fast!
and on ubuntu9.04 9-4 runs like hell!
I think peppo is referring to the 8.60 internal version number on the Ubuntu driver. Just guessing, but I think you guys are talking about the same driver.
Indeed 8.6 is the internal number of fglrx 9.4
Btw 9.4 it works well here - no problems at all.
SorinN, Quaridarium, which GPU hardware are you using ? I don't *think* peppo is hitting hardware limits but wouldn't hurt to check.
Peppo, sounds like *everything* is slow on your system. Wondering if you're running without acceleration, can you either check x log and dmesg output for drm errors or pastebin and we'll take a look ?
EDIT - peppo, never mind, I think there are enough messages in your original post to confirm that acceleration is working.
When you say "performance running ati is the same or worse", are you running the appropriate drm (from the 6xx-7xx support branch), *very* recent -ati code (6.12.1 or git master), and have you confirmed in the logs that acceleration is working ?
Last edited by bridgman; 03-26-2009 at 02:22 PM.
not realy 8.6 is not the internal number!
8.60 rc1 or 8.61 or 8.62 is the internal number.
the 8.60 also has RC1 RC2 and so one!
Yes.. but he do not talk abaut a beta.
i test the 9-4beta of the 9.04alpfa6 ubuntu on an IGP radeon 3300!!!
and its RUN like HELL!
i think the 9.3 final release will be faster than the 9-4beta in the 9.04 ubuntu.
and yes the 9-4 final will be the fastest :-)
The package version is 2:8.600-0ubuntu1, OpenGL version string: 2.1.8575 and amdcccle reports 8.60.40
bridgman: no, no DRM errors or anything similar in Xorg.0.log... the only message after monitor probing is:
swlDalGetDisplayIndex:ERROR: The number of Active Displays is 0
[ 5136.852433] (II) fglrx(0): atiddxDisplayScreenLoadPalette: numColors: 256
When you speak about drm, you're referring to the free drivers? I'm keen to get fglrx working properly, as I have gathered this is the driver that would give best performance?
And I feel I should ask... I've not used anything but GNU/Linux on this machine, but is the hardware capable of driving a compositing desktop? I figure it should be, since it came with some version of Vista, where, in the few minutes I ran it before installing Jaunty, it seemed to perform OK.
So... can the Mobility HD 3470 handle basic compositing tasks? My guess would be absolutely, but these drivers are either very very slow or there is some other issue that I have to figure out!
Edit: I should clarify I was using fglrx here. I've now also tried xf86-video-ati 6.12.1 and latest drm and 2D acceleration is piss poor to non existant, and xvideo does NOT work... ugh.
Last edited by peppo; 03-27-2009 at 08:07 AM.
Its so Simple but unter NDA 9-3 Catalyst will be faster becourse the Ubuntu9.04 8.600-0ubuntu1 no not have the KDE4.2 and composit speed up that the lastet 9-3 beta have!
9-3 will not work for the 9.04ubuntu!!! but the Final 9-4 will bring gread Performance!
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