Resizing issue with Compositing

[ld6772]

Hello,
I am using fglrx (8.12 8.561-1) on OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64. My card is a Mobility Radeon HD 3650.

When I am using compositing, both with KWin and Compiz resizing windows takes a considerably long time.

The device section of xorg.conf looks like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Mobility Radeon HD 3650"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "FSAAScale" "0"
Option "FSAAEnable" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
#Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

But I get this output in Xorg.0.log:

(WW) fglrx(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "FSAAScale" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "FSAAEnable" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "AccelMethod" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "CalcAlgorithm" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "PreferredMode" is not used


I would be most grateful for help on this.

[bridgman]

Removing the XAANoOffscreenPixmaps line might help. I don't think you want to use VideoOverlay on an HDxxxx GPU.

Taking out the other "not used" lines won't make any difference but will make it a bit easier to see error messages.

[ld6772]

Removing the XAANoOffscreenPixmaps line might help. I don't think you want to use VideoOverlay on an HDxxxx GPU.

Taking out the other "not used" lines won't make any difference but will make it a bit easier to see error messages.

Thanks for the quick response...
The The XAANoOffscreenPixmaps line was already commented out, I commented out the VideoOverlay and that seems to have made no difference, windows still take a few seconds to resize.

[RealNC]

This is normal with ATI's drivers and there's nothing you can do about it, sorry :P You have to wait for ATI to fix the drivers (we've been waiting for a looong time though.)

[Melcar]

I always hated how OpenSuse bloats xorg.conf. Anyway, take out the XAANoOffscreenPixmaps option as well as the VideoOverlay one. I don't think fglrx can use EXA, so you should take that out as well. You may want to take out UseFastTLS as well. This is how my xorg.conf looks like:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I really don't see the need to spam the Device section with anything other than what I have there, unless you want to force a particular behavior (force opengl overlay for example). The driver will load the options it can use once you initialize it.

[ld6772]

I always hated how OpenSuse bloats xorg.conf. Anyway, take out the XAANoOffscreenPixmaps option as well as the VideoOverlay one. I don't think fglrx can use EXA, so you should take that out as well. You may want to take out UseFastTLS as well. This is how my xorg.conf looks like:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I really don't see the need to spam the Device section with anything other than what I have there, unless you want to force a particular behavior (force opengl overlay for example). The driver will load the options it can use once you initialize it.

To be fair on OpenSUSE I added a lot of those options after looking around for solutions to the resizing issue.
I've cleaned it up a lot now, thanks.

[ld6772]

This is normal with ATI's drivers and there's nothing you can do about it, sorry :P You have to wait for ATI to fix the drivers (we've been waiting for a looong time though.)

I had a feeling that that was going to be the case. Thanks for the confirmation.

[zx2c4]

still an issue in 9.7...

[poofyyoda]

From what I've seen it is more of a bug in X, just that the slowness is noticed on ATI more. Even on Nvidia, try to resize some of the gnome games, most noticeably gbnibbles, and you will see the exact symptoms that fglrx has on other windows when the backfill functionality is there. Note that, resizing gnibbles is slow regardless of whether the patch is applied or not, implying that the problem is not in the backfill function itself, but that it just exposes a deeper issue.

[Melcar]

The patched xserver that has been floating around fixes this issue, but the downside is that you get artifacts on-screen.