Radeon X200M help offered

[michael lang]

You read correctly. Though I'll add that EnablePageFlip(already using
EXA). But usually without DRI, glxgears stutters, but not on my
laptop(it did with Mesa-6.5.3).

On 27/10/2007, Jan Willies <jan at willies.info> wrote:
> michael lang wrote:
> > On 27/10/2007, Jan Willies <jan at willies.info> wrote:
> >> Oops, that actually should have gone to the ML.
> >>
> >> Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>> On 10/27/07, Jan Willies <jan at willies.info> wrote:
> >>>> Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>>>>> I've got a laptop with a Radeon Xpress 200M, and am wondering what I
> >>>>>> can do to help with getting 3D hardware acceleration to work
> properly,
> >>>>>> more specifically, is there a place where the basics are listed on
> how
> >>>>>> to 'hack' on the driver(I'm also prepared to test stuff)? Also, is
> >>>>>> this the correct list to be mailing, or should I mail the MESA list
> >>>>>> instead?
> >>>>> It should for a large value of work, googleearth and stuff wfm...
> >>>>> compiz not so much..
> >>>> Oh, googleearth works for you? Out of the box, or did you touch some
> >>>> buttons? Cause it doesn't work for me (XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)).
> >>>>
> >>> you may need to disable lowimpact fallbacks...
> >>>
> >>> disable_lowimpact_fallback=1 googleearth
> >>>
> >>> out of the box with what installed? Fedora 8 will be okay, other
> >>> distros no idea..
> >> With OOTB I meant without tweaking the xorg.conf. I'm running mesa-7.0.1
> >> and ati-6.7.195 but googleearth falls back to software rendering:
> >>
> >> Warning, xpress200 detected.
> >> do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working
> correctly.
> >> Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH unset.
> >>
> *********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
> >> File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 471
> >> Software fallback:ctx->Line.SmoothFlag
> >>
> ***************************************************************************
> >> wx=0.312690, wy=0.328990, rx=0.639990, ry=0.330000
> >> gx=0.210000, gy=0.710000, bx=0.149990, by=0.059990
> >> wx=0.312690, wy=0.328990, rx=0.639990, ry=0.330000
> >> gx=0.210000, gy=0.710000, bx=0.149990, by=0.059990
> >> wx=0.312690, wy=0.328990, rx=0.639990, ry=0.330000
> >> gx=0.210000, gy=0.710000, bx=0.149990, by=0.059990
> >> wx=0.312690, wy=0.328990, rx=0.639990, ry=0.330000
> >>
> >> jan at jan ~/src $ echo $LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH
> >>
> >> jan at jan ~/src $ echo $LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH
> >>
> >> jan at jan ~/src $
> >>
> >>
> >> and with disable_lowimpact_fallback=1:
> >>
> >> jan at jan ~/src $ disable_lowimpact_fallback=1 googleearth
> >> ATTENTION: default value of option disable_lowimpact_fallback overridden
> >> by environment.
> >> Fatal error in __driConfigOptions line 129, column 0: illegal default
> >> value: 1.
> >> Google Earth has caught signal 6.
> >>
> >> Here are my config/log: http://pastebin.ca/raw/751578
> >>
> >> Or is this something I should talk about with google?
> >>
> >
> > Eh, actually DRI doesn't work at all here on my laptop. I'm running
> > Mesa-7.0.1 with xorg-server-1.4.0 and ati-driver-git. glxgears does
> > run reasonably smoothly with ~630 FPS...
>
> I don't know about the internals (whether mesa is involved) but with
>
> 	Option 		"AccelMethod"		"EXA"
> 	Option		"EnablePageFlip"	"on"
>
> I get around ~950 FPS. Without those options ~550. I also read that
> glxgears is not the right tool for benchmarking :P
>
>
> - Jan
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