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#1 2008-08-30 14:57:26
- BeholdMyGlory
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- Registered: 2008-08-30
- Posts: 93
Lag in compiz and games with Catalyst
Recently installed installed Arch on my laptop. Installed KDE4 with Catalyst drivers for a Radeon X1200.
I finally got 3d games och Compiz working today, but I have a problem. Sometimes, compiz or a game lag. With compiz, the screen freezes for about 1-10 seconds, and my games freeze for about 2 seconds.
The strange part is that it doesn't seem to be a problem with 3D accelerating or anything concerning that, but rather a problem with 2D.
Compiz often freezes when I scroll in a program by dragging the scrollbar up or down, or with firefox's soft scroll. Also, it happens sometimes when switching back from for example Win+Tab(don't know what the plugin is called in english, but you know. When the windows are placed in a pile in 3D, and each time you press Tab you chose the next window).
Also, the games that lag seem to lag when loading many 2D-sprites(for example yoshis story, running in mupen64).
Of course, it could just be a coincidence that for example Compiv haven't froze when using the 3D cube for example.
I know it could be related to that my graphic card isn't very good, but it worked fine in Kubuntu.
If there's anything you need to know, ask. And if you need it, here's my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "DRM_nbufs" # <i>
#Option "DRM_bufsize" # <i>
#Option "Capabilities" # <i>
#Option "CapabilitiesEx" # <i>
#Option "ClientDriverName" # [<str>]
#Option "KernelModuleParm" # [<str>]
#Option "AGPMask" # <i>
#Option "AGPv3Mask" # <i>
#Option "BufferTiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "Profile" # <str>
#Option "RingSize" # <i>
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "GammaCorrectionI" # <i>
#Option "GammaCorrectionII" # <i>
#Option "OpenGLOverlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultVisualTrueColor" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoOverlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "DesktopSetup" # [<str>]
#Option "MonitorLayout" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceMonitors" # [<str>]
#Option "EnableMonitor" # <str>
#Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" # [<bool>]
#Option "Mode2" # [<str>]
#Option "PairModes" # [<str>]
#Option "HSync2" # [<str>]
#Option "VRefresh2" # [<str>]
#Option "ScreenOverlap" # <i>
#Option "MemClock" # <i>
#Option "ASICClock" # <i>
#Option "UseInternalAGPGART" # [<bool>]
#Option "FastSwap" # [<bool>]
#Option "Stereo" # [<bool>]
#Option "StereoSyncEnable" # <i>
#Option "DisableOvScaler" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFastTLS" # <i>
#Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceGenericCPU" # [<bool>]
#Option "CenterMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "OffScreenPixmaps" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnableOpaqueOverlayVisual" # [<bool>]
#Option "TMDSCoherentMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVFormat" # [<str>]
#Option "TVStandard" # [<str>]
#Option "TVOverscan" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVHSizeAdj" # <i>
#Option "TVVSizeAdj" # <i>
#Option "TVHPosAdj" # <i>
#Option "TVVPosAdj" # <i>
#Option "TVHStartAdj" # <i>
#Option "TVColorAdj" # <i>
#Option "PseudoColorVisuals" # [<bool>]
#Option "PreferredVRefresh" # <i>
#Option "FastStart" # [<bool>]
#Option "ProfileDriver" # [<bool>]
#Option "PPPTforGART" # [<bool>]
#Option "TexturedVideo" # [<bool>]
#Option "TexturedVideoSync" # [<bool>]
#Option "Textured2D" # [<bool>]
#Option "TexturedXrender" # [<bool>]
#Option "DPMS" # [<bool>]
#Option "MaxGARTSize" # <i>
#Option "LogoPosX" # <i>
#Option "LogoPosY" # <i>
#Option "LogoColFG" # <i>
#Option "LogoColBG" # <i>
#Option "SwapScreens" # [<bool>]
#Option "FBC" # [<bool>]
#Option "FrontBufferMode" # <i>
#Option "BackBufferMode" # <i>
#Option "DepthBufferMode" # <i>
#Option "OverlayBufferMode" # <i>
#Option "VideoOverlayBufferMode" # <i>
#Option "EnableIrqMgr" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnableMulticard" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePPLIB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultOnDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnableRandR12" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisableRotation" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnableCrossFire" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisableDlm" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPMode" "2"
#Option "ColorTiling" "on"
#Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
#Option "AGPFastWrite" "yes"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon X1200 Series"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSectionOffline
#2 2008-08-31 12:26:36
- BeholdMyGlory
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- Registered: 2008-08-30
- Posts: 93
Re: Lag in compiz and games with Catalyst
Okay, not just 2D related, pretty much all my games tend to freeze for a second or two with maybe 30 seconds between every freeze. Doesn't anyone know what's wrong?
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#3 2008-08-31 16:05:49
- luciferin
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- Registered: 2007-05-10
- Posts: 144
Re: Lag in compiz and games with Catalyst
Try adding "nopat" to your kernel line in Grub. Mine looks like this now:
ktitle Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk vga=791 ro nopat
initrd /boot/kernel26.imgThis fixes a pause I get every few seconds with the new driver.
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