Ati Radeon Mobility 7500 - xorg issue (Thinkpad T42)

MacPlaceq · 2009-02-09 16:30:13

Hi guys!
I've got just one problem:

On my T42, glxgears shows around 700 fps.

I've made many different changes to xorg (running radeon driver). One thing really made a boost - that was a change from 24 to 16 bit color depth. It results in 1200 fps in clean X and KDEmod 4.2 (Compositing off). For example, the speed of etracer really annoys me -.- Glest is rather unplayable. Ordinary Warcraft III under Win XP runs like lightning (Omega drivers). People around get 1400 - 1500 to even 2000 fps in glxgears

These changes may look weird to you, please check it out and post, whether you have any suggestions.
Notice: KDEmod sometimes changes the cursor into a weird colorful square, just like it sometimes makes tty's totally unusable (when I press ctrl+fX, half of screen turns in black with green fonts. It looks like a resized tty. Difficult to describe).

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Xorg Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
#Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"

EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "ddc" # ddc probing of monitor
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
#Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "record"
Load "synaptics"
#dodane
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "pl"
Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Serial Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

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

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS" "true"
# HorizSync 28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors
HorizSync 28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0 # Very conservative. May flicker.
# VertRefresh 50.0 - 62.0 # Extreme conservative. Will flicker. TFT default.
# Default modes distilled from
# "VESA and Industry Standards and Guide for Computer Display Monitor
# Timing", version 1.0, revision 0.8, adopted September 17, 1998.
# $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/vesamodes,v 1.4 1999/11/18 16:52:17 tsi Exp $
# 640x350 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
ModeLine "640x350" 31.5 640 672 736 832 350 382 385 445 +hsync -vsync
# 640x400 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
ModeLine "640x400" 31.5 640 672 736 832 400 401 404 445 -hsync +vsync
# 640x480 @ 60Hz (Industry standard) hsync: 31.5kHz
ModeLine "640x480" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync
# 640x480 @ 72Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
ModeLine "640x480" 31.5 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -hsync -vsync
# 640x480 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.5kHz
ModeLine "640x480" 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync
# 640x480 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 43.3kHz
ModeLine "640x480" 36.0 640 696 752 832 480 481 484 509 -hsync -vsync
# 800x600 @ 56Hz (VESA) hsync: 35.2kHz
ModeLine "800x600" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
# 800x600 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
ModeLine "800x600" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
# 800x600 @ 72Hz (VESA) hsync: 48.1kHz
ModeLine "800x600" 50.0 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync
# 800x600 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 46.9kHz
ModeLine "800x600" 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync
# 800x600 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 53.7kHz
ModeLine "800x600" 56.3 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync
# 1024x768i @ 43Hz (industry standard) hsync: 35.5kHz
ModeLine "1024x768" 44.9 1024 1032 1208 1264 768 768 776 817 +hsync +vsync Interlace
# 1024x768 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 48.4kHz
ModeLine "1024x768" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
# 1024x768 @ 70Hz (VESA) hsync: 56.5kHz
ModeLine "1024x768" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
# 1024x768 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 60.0kHz
ModeLine "1024x768" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
# 1024x768 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 68.7kHz
ModeLine "1024x768" 94.5 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync

# Extended modelines with GTF timings
# 640x480 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 50.90 kHz; pclk: 43.16 MHz
ModeLine "640x480" 43.16 640 680 744 848 480 481 484 509 -HSync +Vsync
# 800x600 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 63.60 kHz; pclk: 68.18 MHz
ModeLine "800x600" 68.18 800 848 936 1072 600 601 604 636 -HSync +Vsync
# 1024x768 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 81.40 kHz; pclk: 113.31 MHz
ModeLine "1024x768" 113.31 1024 1096 1208 1392 768 769 772 814 -HSync +Vsync
EndSection
# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "All"
BoardName "All"
#Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

#Suggested settings from forums:
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" #for AIGLX?
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "ColorTiling" "on"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "yes"
#Risky settings from different forums?:
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"

EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
# Depth 32
# Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#EndSubSection
#Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
#Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Last edited by MacPlaceq (2009-02-09 17:08:54)

koch · 2009-02-09 17:15:59

hello, my xoprg.conf using xf86-video-ati

http://attachr.com/11698

golxgears shows about 1250.

edit: have to clean up xorg.conf, too much unnessecary stuff.

Last edited by koch (2009-02-09 17:17:07)

MacPlaceq · 2009-02-09 18:57:59

After a bit further searching, i've decided to comment this "GART" related option, and added "GARTSize" option. I assigned 256 MB RAM with it, and Etracer really flies Woohooo

mcover · 2009-02-09 19:26:42

I think your graphics performance is fine given the specs and there is no real issue. If you want to play games with your radeon, the open-source driver does not always perform best. You could try the closed-source catalyst from ATI (given that your card is supported) - I would stick to open-source if you don't really want to play games. I personally use the catalyst with my radeon mobility hd - its finally working properly - but it bugs me that its the proprietary driver.

If you wish to benchmark your graphics performance in OpenGL i suggest you use globs (in AUR) or even a game with built-in benchmarking capabilities (i.e. Quake* or Unreal Tournament 2003+).

glxgears is not a benchmark (I think this is also stated clearly somewhere in glxgears' documentation).

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#1 2009-02-09 16:30:13

Ati Radeon Mobility 7500 - xorg issue (Thinkpad T42)

#2 2009-02-09 17:15:59

Re: Ati Radeon Mobility 7500 - xorg issue (Thinkpad T42)

#3 2009-02-09 18:57:59

Re: Ati Radeon Mobility 7500 - xorg issue (Thinkpad T42)

#4 2009-02-09 19:26:42

Re: Ati Radeon Mobility 7500 - xorg issue (Thinkpad T42)

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