Mesa 7.11 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

[Jonno]

What are the minimum requirements for drm,libdrm,and co ?

libdrm 2.4.24 is required.
I believe it is supposed to work with any drm version, but some features and optimizations will be disabled unless you are using drm from at least linux 2.6.39.

[curaga]

Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?

Is your card AGP by any chance?

[ahlaht]

Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?

That's what I had been wondering with my evergreen card for months until I found out the clock speeds are not set correctly on my system.

If you haven't already make sure the clocks have been set to something reasonable:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/radeon_pm_info

I suspect power management is currently the biggest problem Radeon users have with Mesa.

I have slowly been doing something to improve the situation because my laptop has several useful clock modes that are not used at all even if I manually set "low", "mid", or "high"! Those almost randomly picked clock modes or the 2 that are used by dynpm are just not good enough in my case.

I wonder if it would be acceptable for mainline inclusion to make a kernel patch and an user mode program that could be used to manually select sane clock modes for fixed profiles and dynpm? Perhaps it could even be part of driconf?

[marek]

Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?

Isn't your hardware slow?

[kraftman]

Is your card AGP by any chance?

No, it's a PCI E. X1600XT. I will have to check some other games, too. Maybe there's a problem with OA only.

[kraftman]

Isn't your hardware slow?

Not for OA or Q3. It was very smooth on my old GF2 MX 400. ;> I have Athlon X2 5000+, 2GB RAM and Ati x1600xt, now.

[kraftman]

That's what I had been wondering with my evergreen card for months until I found out the clock speeds are not set correctly on my system.

If you haven't already make sure the clocks have been set to something reasonable:
[CODE]
cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/radeon_pm_info

Thanks, but it seems I don't have such option - there's no such file or directory

[whizse]

Thanks, but it seems I don't have such option - there's no such file or directory

Make sure you have debugfs mounted.

[kraftman]

Make sure you have debugfs mounted.

If it's enough to do: mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug

then it doesn't work. I suppose my graphic card doesn't support the feature.

[ahlaht]

If it's enough to do: mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug

then it doesn't work. I suppose my graphic card doesn't support the feature.

It should be enough if your kernel has CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y.

From what I remember from the code I think radeon_pm_info should be available even if power management is disabled. (But I might be wrong too.)