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megawebmaster

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Guys, anybody knows if drm-radeon-testing is going to be merged with 2.6.35? New kernel has achieved RC1 state, so maybe there will be update to this version in drm-radeon-testing?

ijanos

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

I'm using the i686 repo and no cooler card yet.

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ijanos

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Guys, anybody knows if drm-radeon-testing is going to be merged with 2.6.35? New kernel has achieved RC1 state, so maybe there will be update to this version in drm-radeon-testing?

The dynamic clock management patches are merged in, imho the voltage control will be in 2.6.36

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venky80

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Are you using the kernel26-drm-radeon-testing kernel from my repo?

I am on kernel26-drm-radeon-testing

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megawebmaster

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

The dynamic clock management patches are merged in, imho the voltage control will be in 2.6.36

I mean - will be drm-radeon-testing based on 2.6.35?

Another question - voltage control is automatically turned on? I'm using RV740 chip.

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Another update for the x86_64 repo. I added the patches for tiling support. There should be a performance improvement.

/edit: Uhh, nice speedup with compiz :-) . I played Quakelive for some minutes: works flawless.

Last edited by Perry3D (2010-05-31 21:54:42)

venky80

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

perry3d do you know how i can regulate the voltage and frequency....I mean what are the commands if any

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Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Sorry. I have no idea. I already asked at the phoronix forum but i get no answer .

gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Ask at #radeon channel (@freenode) - they should know.

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Phoronix: Thermal Monitoring Comes To Newer Radeon DRM

This patch, however, will not work for 100% of the R600/R700/Evergreen GPUs as not all OEMs support the actual internal sensor. Most of the Mobility Radeon ASICs also implement a separate ACPI-based thermal monitoring mechanism.

but

# sensors
radeon-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:       +54.0°C

At the moment i upload the patched kernel.

And don't forget to enable color tiling in your xorg.conf for a performance improvement:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "radeonCard"
    Driver      "radeon"
    Option "ColorTiling" "True"
EndSection

gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Omg, right now I´d post it. xD

flamelab

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@Perry3D: When 2.6.34 passes to core, will you please update the ATi wiki page for the powersaving features ?

gtklocker

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@Perry3D: When 2.6.34 passes to core, will you please update the ATi wiki page for the powersaving features ?

Oh, he should edit the first post of this thread too

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

@Perry3D: When 2.6.34 passes to core, will you please update the ATi wiki page for the powersaving features ?

Sure, i will.

megawebmaster

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Is IgnoreABI option still needed? I mean - is xf86-video-ati-git compiled against xorg 1.8 finally?

ijanos

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Is IgnoreABI option still needed? I mean - is xf86-video-ati-git compiled against xorg 1.8 finally?

Not until it hits extra

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gobeav3rs297

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

the latest mesa-full package from http://gtklocker.tiven.org/radeon-repo/i686/ mesa-full-20100601-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz doesn't seem to have glxinfo compiled within it so fusion-icon didn't load after i upgraded.  Had to downgrade to mesa-full-20100519-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz in order for it to work.

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

the latest mesa-full package from http://gtklocker.tiven.org/radeon-repo/i686/ mesa-full-20100601-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz doesn't seem to have glxinfo compiled within it so fusion-icon didn't load after i upgraded.  Had to downgrade to mesa-full-20100519-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz in order for it to work.

Glxinfo is now in mesa-demos-git. It was removed from the mesa master branch.

gobeav3rs297

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

does mesa-full and mesa-demos-git coexist then?

Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Yes, and mesa-demos-git depends on mesa.

gobeav3rs297

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

I'm getting the follow conflict when trying to install mesa-demo-git

vincent:~$ sudo pacman -S mesa-demos-git
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: libgl-git conflicts with mesa-full. Remove mesa-full? [Y/n] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: mesa-demos-git: requires glut
:: enblend-enfuse: requires freeglut
:: jasper: requires freeglut
:: xf86-video-ati-git: requires ati-dri>=7.5

gobeav3rs297

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

nvm, it was a conflict since i had both the nightly repo and gtklocker repo, solved it

venky80

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Phoronix: Thermal Monitoring Comes To Newer Radeon DRM

This patch, however, will not work for 100% of the R600/R700/Evergreen GPUs as not all OEMs support the actual internal sensor. Most of the Mobility Radeon ASICs also implement a separate ACPI-based thermal monitoring mechanism.

but

# sensors
radeon-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:       +54.0°C

At the moment i upload the patched kernel.

And don't forget to enable color tiling in your xorg.conf for a performance improvement:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "radeonCard"
    Driver      "radeon"
    Option "ColorTiling" "True"
EndSection

i get is

[venky@INEVERUSEWIN7 ~]$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:       +57.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)                  
temp2:       +53.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)                  
temp3:       +63.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)

fan keeps running so it is pretty bad

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Perry3D

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

fan keeps running so it is pretty bad

Did you try

echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

lordheavy

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Re: Discussion: the ati/radeon open source drivers & radeon repository

Color tiling doesn't seem to work for me (hd4200 - RS880)

[    15.644] (**) RADEON(0): Option "ColorTiling" "True"
[    15.644] (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
[    15.644] (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
[    15.644] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 4200" (ChipID = 0x9710)
[    15.644] (II) RADEON(0): PCI card detected
[    15.644] (WW) RADEON(0): Color tiling is not yet supported on R600/R700
[    15.644] (II) RADEON(0): KMS Color Tiling: disabled

Last edited by lordheavy (2010-06-03 14:36:13)