very slow 3d on Mobility FireGL V5200 with radeon driver

[Dave Airlie]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Marc MERLIN <marc at merlins.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:15:21AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 15:01 -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>> > This is with 6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu4 with the latest
>> > packages from ubuntu jaunty (i.e. bleeding edge).
>> >
>> > I get the X server to init DRI with both radeonhd and radeon.
>> > With radeonhd, the machine deadlocks after I exit the X app (which is
>> > slow too) With radeon, things work, but they are quite slow.
>> >
>> > 1613fps glxgears, 14fps lavalite, and google earth takes 5mn to zoom
>> > on a spot.
>>
>> I don't think Google Earth should be that slow. Maybe something like
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17929 is biting you.
>
> I had a look and tried to see what you mean.
> I don't get any r300 debug output, but is that because I have AIGLX on?
> Would you like me to turn it off?
>
>> > Is that expected because the driver is still experimental, or bad?
>> > (my much other r300 based thinkpad T42p does 3d much faster than this
>> > r5xx chip on my thinkpad Z61p).
>>
>> That's weird. Are you using the same (or at least as similar as
>> possible) driver versions and configuration?
>
> Same config file, I just s/radeonhd/radeon/
>
> Drivers are the latest I could get in ubuntu unstable:
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon     1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu4
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd   1.2.3-1
>
> I don't mind going to git next, but I'm not even sure if I should prefer
> radeon to radeonhd for that chip, or the other way around?]

I'm not radeonhd turns on DRI, just use radeon.

Dave.

>
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