[8.42.3] X1950Pro AGP vs 9500Pro AGP the winner? Clearly the 9500Pro! ... what?!

[oliver]

Hi all,

some might remember me complaining about the lack of X1950Pro AGP (realto) support on the 8.41 driver series, making it segfault etc, which was ok, it wasn't a supported card. The 'crappy' thing was that the only driver that DID work was the 8.34.4 one, and only with a secret special trick at that.

I was getting corruptions on 2d surfaces (ff etc) and 3d didn't work or work highly corrupted (this actually even on 8.42 in ut2004). Setting my AGP-Gart from 128mb to 256 fixed that for the 8.34, and changing it to 512mb fixed it on the 8.42 driver. (the card is a 512mb model, i temp had a 256 model where coincidently i could go to/from 64mb -> 128 -> 256)

Back to now, I tried using the 8.42.3 driver and got horrible performance, I mentioned it in the big 'the baby is born' thread but that got quickly lost, with 1 comment wether I was having AIGLX/composite issues (i have both disabled). I can play et (not qw) at 20 - 90FPS but it's never smooth. It feels choppy, looks choppy and i got some minor texture corruption on the minimap and map.

So instead of mindlessly complaining, I put back my old old 9500Pro AGP thatI borrowed my brother (his own was being RMAed) and I tried that one out with 8.42.3

I now get what all the fuss is about. I get smooth 90FPS without a hiss in ET, it looks smooth, it feels smooth.

In WoW (wine -opengl) i got marginal performance on the X1950Pro, 5 - 10FPS where 'normal' for busy areas and i've seen anything from 3 fps to 60fps depending on the area. (small narrow buildings/hallways got me up, busy large area's where .. grinding to halt almost) but avg. would be i say anything between 10 - 25fps.

With the 9500 i'm gettin 25 - 100fps, with 100 more then the 25. Yeah, weird huh

I'll attach 3 xorg logs, 8.34 and 8.42 - 1950 and the 8.42 for the 9500 Pro

It seems to me, there's an issue somewhere with the AGP thing still. Since it's the same system/settings, and only video card swapped, I can either be hardware, or driver related, not kernel etc, and the hardware works. (the card is fine in, *sigh* windos)

Thanks for your reads

Since phoronix won't let me post my 3 uber big logs, i hosted them myself:
http://oliver.schinagl.nl/~oliver/xorg.logs

I 'snipped' the important part from the X1950Pro on the 8.42.3 for those who don't like to read big logs

(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.0
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x2000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0x2000 to 0xb7edf000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x3000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
(II) fglrx(0):     Name: fglrx
(II) fglrx(0):     Version: 8.42.3
(II) fglrx(0):     Date: Oct 19 2007
(II) fglrx(0):     Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver.
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information:
(II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE:        2.6.22-gentoo-r8
(II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS:        no
(II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel __SMP__:            yes
(II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE:          0x1000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0x00004000
(EE) fglrx(0): Failed to enable interrupts.
(II) fglrx(0): [pci] find AGP GART
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] Mode=0x1f000a1b bridge: 0x1106/0x0282
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP v1/2 disable mask 0x00000000
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP v3 disable mask   0x00000000
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] enabling AGP with mode=0x1f000b1a
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] Remapping MC AGP space (new MCAGPBase = 0xc0000000)
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP protocol is enabled for graphics board. (cmd=0x1f000312)
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] graphics chipset has AGP v3.0 (native mode)
(II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xe0100000 FBMappedSize: 0x01000400
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1280,3277)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1280,1024) (front color buffer - assumption)
(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 2253