[Bug 19737] New: Poor 2D (CompizFusion / Video) performance on SuSE 11. 1 with Xorg 7.4 and radeon

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           Summary: Poor 2D (CompizFusion / Video) performance on SuSE 11.1
                    with Xorg 7.4 and radeon
           Product: xorg
           Version: 7.4
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/Radeon
        AssignedTo: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
        ReportedBy: simon at grootbramel.net
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Created an attachment (id=22231)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=22231)
GlxGears of 11.0

Hello guys,
I hope thats the right place to ask.

I have a Notebook with a Pentium M and an ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 (RV350)
using OpenSuSE 11.1 with Xorg 7.4 and Radeon (xf86-driver-ati-9.10).
I had problems with upgrading to Xorg 7.4 due to the AGPMode (as written in a
different bug) but Alex Deucher helped me out (thanks for that again).

Now I still have two issues itching which probably belong to the radeon driver.
The first on is the performance. As you can see in the screenshots I attached
the poor performance only belongs to CompizFusion. Having been able to play
videos back in SuSE 11.0 on Xorg 7.3 and older graphics drivers, now I am not
even able to switch windows probably.
This doesn't seem to be so much of a CPU Load Problem since the CPU is quite
idle while switching between windows.

I have already tried a lot of things in Xorg.conf. EXA made the problems worth
and the Xserver to crash randomly. Back to the AccelMethod of XAA, I added
ColorTiling and PageFlipping to On, even tried AGPFastWrite but none of that
gave any performance boosts. A newer version of compiz neither...
Why is Compiz effected and glxgears not? Thats strange in my eyes...


The second issue is the hibernate mode - trying to wake up my notebook the fan
start, the buttons get yellow again, the hard drive spins up (but doesn't start
to work like ratteling or so) ---> and the screen stays black. No chance to
soft reboot then, I have to go the hard way.
It feels like that was caused by the graphics driver, could that be true or is
there a way to find out? I have read that in some earlier versions of openSUSE
11.1 you had to boot with "noHz=off" but that didn't change my issue.
The standby problem is not so much of priority and you can leave out answers
because it doesn't belong to the bug, but I didn't want to add another one (I
don't want to flood you though)


Thank you for your participation.

There are some images and files attached which will hopefully help you.


---
simon


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