Re: Poor 2D performance problems ..

From: Tom Poliquin (poliquin_at_softcomp.com)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:25:41 -0700

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:02:54 +0100, Justin wrote:

Justin,

> the links dont seem to be working, at least not for me.

Sorry you had problems ..

I think the problem was that my ISP went down for
some major rework .. They're back up now ..

Thanks,

Tom

> Tom Poliquin wrote:
>
>> My 2D screen performance is terrible ..
>> I'm not sure if this is an X problem or
>> a WM problem .. or something else ..
>>
>> I don't what to do next. I've been
>> working on this for about 2 weeks and I
>> am hoping someone can give me a direction
>> to research ..
>>
>> Overview ...
>>
>> 2D Screen performance on RH 8 is quite slow ..
>>
>> - I can watch the menus being painted.
>>
>> - When I slide one window over another
>> my CPU usage goes to 100% and I get
>> window "tails".
>>
>> - The GUI speed is almost *faster* on
>> my laptop X server.
>>
>>
>> Here's what I have ..
>>
>> - Athlon 2000+
>> - Radeon 7000 VE
>> - Asus A7N8X Deluxe MB
>> - 1GB RAM
>>
>> - Red Hat 8.0
>>
>> Here's the software I've upgraded ..
>>
>> - Upgraded kernel to 2.4.22-pre7
>> - Upgraded XFree86 to 4.30
>> - Upgraded radeon.o kernel module
>>
>> Here's some other things I've tried ..
>>
>> - Different WMs .. Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker
>> all slow.
>>
>> - Told Gnome to use ugly fonts .. better
>> performance but only a little. Sliding
>> windows across each other used *only*
>> 93% of the CPU instead of 100%.
>>
>> Here's what the logs are saying ..
>>
>> - All the related logs/configs I know about look fine ..
>>
>> Links are here:
>> XFree86 Config
>> http://www.softcomp.com/logs/xfconfig.html
>> XFree86 Log
>> http://www.softcomp.com/logs/xflog.html
>> Kernel Log
>> http://www.softcomp.com/logs/kernel.html
>>
>> - XFree86 log says that DRI acceleration
>> is enabled and DRM is OK .. but I only
>> really care about 2D.
>>
>> - I'm running the board in an AGP slot
>> (AGP 4x) and all the kernel logs
>> say this is fine. The board was placed
>> at irq 5.
>>
>> - The only thing I can see is that DDC test
>> fails but I've seen other posts about this
>> and no one seemed to care.
>>
>> Here's some other info ..
>>
>> - I've looked at the radeon X options and couldn't
>> find anything interesting.
>>
>> - Glxgears runs about 550 fps and this is only slightly
>> slower when I turn 3d acceleration off .. so at
>> least *something* is getting accelerated :-)
>>
>> - I had read that this Radeon board had reasonable
>> 2D performance ..
>>
>> - It seems that 2D performance is an orphan, I've
>> seen tons of info on 3D but very little on 2D (or
>> I don't know how to find it).
>>
>> How do I orthogonalize this problem? ..
>>
>> Is it X, Gnome, Kernel, Hardware, Stupidity,
>> Delusions of Grandeur, or Gray Davis .. ?
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated ..
>>
>> Tom
>
> the links dont seem to be working, at least not for me.

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