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bananaoomarang

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Registered: 2009-10-29

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ati radeon X200m

my graphics card (radeon XPRESS 200M) doesn't appear to be working properly and is very slow (300 fps).

I am usiong xf86-video-ati and have had a hard time on other distros aswell.

this is what I did last time http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-78 … art-0.html on gentoo. It gave me 800 fps (still pretty slow the other guy said he was getting 1400 fps but sort of satifactory)

I have tried istalling mesa drm and my drivers git versions THIS BOOSTED MY PERFORMENCE TO AN AMAZING 300 FPS but that still sucks.

here is my var/log/Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/m5023a930

here is xorg.conf

 # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)                                           
#                                                                                                       
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using                            
# values from the debconf database.                                                                     
#                                                                                                       
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.                                       
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)                                                           
#                                                                                                       
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*                            
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg                                
# package.                                                                                              
#                                                                                                       
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated                            
# again, run the following command:                                                                     
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg                                                           

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"             
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "uk"   
EndSection                                     

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"           
        Option          "CorePointer"     
EndSection                                

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"         
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"  
        Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "0"         
EndSection                                                  

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Option          "AccelMethod" "EXA"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

ANY help would be amazing thankyou.

I used glx gears to produce fps rates I have talked about tested by also using compiz effects and looking at how slow they are.

I had to disable kms to make compiz work as it won't work without indirect rendering which is also annoying.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

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Re: ati radeon X200m

Read the ATi wiki page on wiki.archlinux.org

bananaoomarang

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Re: ati radeon X200m

I have done. I have played with kms and no xorg.conf as well no joy any other suggestions.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

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Re: ati radeon X200m

Wait for mesa 7.6 then.

bananaoomarang

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Re: ati radeon X200m

ok when is that likely to be because isn't that already released but not in the repos and is it likely to fix performance?

EDIT: windwaker is an awesome game

Last edited by bananaoomarang (2009-10-29 20:41:00)

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

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Re: ati radeon X200m

It's on [testing], but hasn't passed to extra, because it needs ... testing (along with Xorg server 1.7).

ΕDIT: All the Zelda games, from NES, to N64 and then GC and Wii, I love them

Last edited by flamelab (2009-10-29 20:52:59)

bananaoomarang

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Re: ati radeon X200m

oh ok thanks for the very quick help.

EDIT: I love zelda but I just thought windwaker was evan more awesome. All of them are amzing but windwaker just has to be my favourite.

Last edited by bananaoomarang (2009-10-29 21:24:57)

F1y3r

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Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: ati radeon X200m

I have the same vga. I use xorg-server, xf86-video-ati and mesa from testing. I get 417fps. That's still pathetic. Karmic Koala (xorg-server 1.7.4) gives more. Could this be xorg bug?

bananaoomarang

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Re: ati radeon X200m

its only a small diference so more likely to do with other system specs (processor etc).

bananaoomarang

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Re: ati radeon X200m

ok well I installed mesa, xorg and the driver from testing and got 600 fps which was ok I suppose but still not great. I will wait for them to pass to extra and downgrade to the current ones now.

bananaoomarang

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Re: ati radeon X200m

ohhh well now mine is 400 - 460 amazing but still rubbish at the same time. Not sure what happned though.

Dheart

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Re: ati radeon X200m

glxgears is not a benchmark. I'm getting 235 fps now, yet the performance in games (warcraft 3 for example) is better than before the update from testing. However glxgears got lower - I used to have 600 fps. So when you update the new xorg and mesa, try some games first, not glxgears.

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bananaoomarang

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Registered: 2009-10-29

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Re: ati radeon X200m

I don't have any good games to test with only compiz so I was also using the benchmark plugin there and watching. This is also very slow when it used to be alot faster with the drivers from git bt this seems to have changed. The only other thing I did was stop drm being loaded as a kernel module but I can't figure out how to do this should I blacklist with a ! in mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild initramfs.

Last edited by bananaoomarang (2009-11-01 10:55:45)

flamelab

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Re: ati radeon X200m

You can't stop drm to load, because if you could, you would have no display.

Have you done everyting mentioned in the wiki ?

bananaoomarang

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Re: ati radeon X200m

in gentoo I did what this said http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-78 … art-0.html and I got alright 3d accel much better than this at the moment but I have done everything on the wiki.

EDIT: On google earth I can zoom in (slowly) but the picture becomes warped and eveything around turns grey slowly and jagged. It is very strange

Last edited by bananaoomarang (2009-11-01 12:03:55)

bananaoomarang

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Re: ati radeon X200m

ok a load of random hours trying random things  has helped. Yeah videos on youtube can't play fullscreen, yeah the magnefier plugin causes monumental slowdown, yeah google earth doesn't work but this is why we love linux always improving in small ways always causing more random trouble but IT IS OPEN SOURCE AND FREE so I can't complain.

andreamer

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Registered: 2009-08-11

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Re: ati radeon X200m

You have no driver in:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Option          "AccelMethod" "EXA"
EndSection

so i guess you could be using vesa which is generic but not so good.

try with
        Driver "radeon"
or
        Driver "fglrx"

blazzter

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Registered: 2009-03-25

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Re: ati radeon X200m

I've solved it happily
install drm-radeon-module-git-r6xx-r7xx-3d    from aur
(I have done it with yaourt, just yyy...y)
my xorg

Section "ServerLayout"                    
        Identifier     "X.org Configured" 
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0      
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        Option         "AIGLX" "on"                                                                                                                                                                               

EndSection

Section "Files"
        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  "glx"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dri2"  
        Load  "dbe"   
        Load  "drm"   
        Load  "dri"   
EndSection                                          

Section "Monitor"
        #DisplaySize      330   210     # mm
        Identifier   "Monitor0"             
        VendorName   "AUO"                  
        ModelName    "2174"                 
    Option        "DPMS"                    
EndSection                                  

Section "Device"
Option     "EnablePageFlip"             "on"                           
Option     "AccelMethod"                "XAA"                         
Option     "AGPFastWrite"               "yes"                          
Option     "ColorTiling"                "on"              
Option     "AGPMode"                    "4"               
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"                                
            
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "ati"  
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"                 

          Option      "DRI" "true"
    Option      "XAANOOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"          
    Option      "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option      "GARTSize" "64"               


EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"  
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        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
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

It is mess...

after this my glxgears was:

6624 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1324.673 FPS

Last edited by blazzter (2009-11-22 17:47:00)