Re: [opensuse] New ATI Driver 9.1 (8.573-1) Available - Still Slow...

Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/02/02 19:39 (GMT-0500) David C. Rankin composed:

My old AGP bus Radeon X800:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R430 [Radeon X800 (PCIE)]

So what kind of mutant to you have that is both AGP and PCIe? I thought X800
was PCIe only.

What happens with the OS driver?

Nope,

I have 2 X800, Both AGP. One is an X800XT with 256M of GDDR3 (R430) and an
X800XT (R420), both new for less than $36.00. Specs were great!

Chip Core / Memory Clk, Interface, Mem xfer Pixels/clock
Radeon X800 XT 500 MHz/ 1 GHz 256-bit 32 GB/s 16

Believe it or not, they are still building high-end agp cards today. Some
things never change;-)

The OS (radeon) driver is decent, but lacks the performance of the ATI (fglrx)
driver and doesn't play as nicely with compiz. Depending on your model card,
the OS driver may, or may not, support the Display Power Management functions
to put the monitor to sleep directly.

All in all, the fglrx driver has been a hands down winner since the February
'08 release up to and including the 8-9 release in 9/09. Starting with the
October 08 release, performance went down hill ... Since it is closed source,
all we can do is speculate.

My speculation still places it's money on the code adjustment needed to
support the 3XXX and 4XXX series of cards having an unforeseen negative effect
on the older cards. And, since this is Linux, from AMD's point of view, it's
not important enough to put resources toward.

BUT HEY -- At least this time I got a response from ADM:

Ticket Details Back Back
Ticket Summary
Ticket #: 737-1394093
Status: Response Sent
Date Created: 2/2/2009 2:42 AM EDT
Date Updated: 2/2/2009 4:46 AM EDT

Ticket Description
Type of Inquiry: PC support
Bus Type: PCI
Operating System: Linux X86 64
Other Operating System:
Driver Version:
Driver Version: Other
Other Driver Version: 9.1 release (8.573-1)
Category: Linux Driver Feedback

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The slowness is very prominent on the KDE desktop when navigating menus or
scrolling documents with graphics and text. Let me know if I can do anything to
help. Until then, I'm going back to the 8-9 driver because -- performance
matters a lot on my laptop. I've attached my xorg.conf for your review.
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xorg.conf

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