Mobility HD2600 PowerPlay problem

[Schmaker]

Hello,
i have a PowerPlay problem on my HD2600 in Toshiba A200. I have Vista and Debian dualboot. On Vista works everything properly, but on Debian is bad FPS everywhere. I think, that problem is caused by PowerPlay.
Sometimes, when i return from suspend, then my graphic run great for some time (~1 minute) - tested on glxgears - when returning from suspend, i have about 4800 FPS, but after some time it gets down to ~2500FPS. I am using Catalyst 8.10.
My question is - is there any chance to get my graphic card properly working on fullspeed (i dont require to get her slower in powersaving mode)?
Thanks for answer.
Some thinks you should wanna know:

schmaker@SchmakBook:~$ glxgears //glxgears after resume from suspend
30210 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6041.911 FPS
24473 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4894.000 FPS
11661 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2320.883 FPS
10554 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2110.680 FPS

schmaker@SchmakBook:~$ aticonfig --lsp
Error: POWERplay is not supported on your hardware.

schmaker@SchmakBook:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8087 Release

[Vighy]

Hi, you have to know that glxgears is not a benchmark, if you really want to know the performance (before and after suspend) you should use something different... like the phoronix test suite

speaking about powerplay, --lsp is deprecated.
You should use --pplib-cmd instead:

aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get activity"
tells you about what's going on in general in this moment

aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get clock"
tells you the ranges between the clocks can vary. (they depend on the state you are: battery or ac)

aticonfig --pplib-cmd="notify psrc dc"
aticonfig --pplib-cmd="notify psrc ac"
tells to the driver that we are in battery/ac, to control the clocks.

is it enough?

[Schmaker]

Thanks

Thanks for your reply. I of course know, that glxgears isnt benchmark, but on full speed it gives 4500FPS (i tried it before FPS drop) without problem, but now i have 2,5k FPS and it is visible in every game, so there i dont see any problem.

Back to aticonfig:

schmaker@SchmakBook:~$ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get activity"
Current Activity is Core Clock: 500MHZ
Memory Clock: 400MHZ
VDDC: 1100
Activity: 0 percent
Performance Level: 0
Bus Speed: 2500
Bus Lanes: 16
Maximum Bus Lanes: 16

schmaker@SchmakBook:~$ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get clock"
Engine Clock Range: 500-500 MHZ; Memory Clock Range: 400-400 NHZ;

I've tried to change "powersource" as you told me - Core clock had changed to 250MHz, but FPS does not changed.

[Vighy]

uh there's something strange there!

ben@Santa^s_lil^_helper ~ $ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get activity"
Current Activity is Core Clock: 220MHZ
Memory Clock: 252MHZ
VDDC: 900
Activity: 0 percent
Performance Level: 0
Bus Speed: 2500
Bus Lanes: 16
Maximum Bus Lanes: 16

and

ben@Santa^s_lil^_helper ~ $ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get clock"
Engine Clock Range: 220-500 MHZ; Memory Clock Range: 252-400 NHZ;

when i'm not running anything.

are you sure you did enable powerplay in the catalyst control center?

[Schmaker]

Powerplay is enabled

Yes, i am sure, powerplay is enabled, but i have no idea why it isnt properly working. Maybe some Catalyst developer can help here?

Maybe i have to give some additional informations:
I havent this problem first time. I fixed it once - when i shutdowned Vista on battery, then i got bad FPS on Debian. I fixed it by reboot to Vista, put it on cable and reboot back to debian, but it doesnt work now (i tried it about 7 times :/ )

[Vighy]

mhh try erasing /etc/ati/amdpcsdb

I hope it's just a configuration problem, in fact it's not related to vista for sure.

[Schmaker]

It didnt solved anything - i restarted X, new amdpcsdb was created and FPS still isnt good... It makes me a bit nervous :/
edit: Damn, it looks like its fixed - after suspend it works now okay... Thanks for your help!
edit2: No, its not okay... FPS falled down after longer time

[Schmaker]

Maybe its problem in "Activity"? This is Activity level while i was running glxgears - ~50% and in glxgears i have about 2500FPS... Shouldnt be activity 100%?

schmaker@SchmakBook:~$ aticonfig --pp "notify psrc ac"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!
schmaker@SchmakBook:~$ aticonfig --pp "get activity"
Current Activity is Core Clock: 500MHZ
Memory Clock: 400MHZ
VDDC: 1100
Activity: 45 percent
Performance Level: 1
Bus Speed: 2500
Bus Lanes: 16
Maximum Bus Lanes: 16

[Vighy]

and how is cpu activity? is at least 1 core at 100%??

[Schmaker]

Yes, 2nd core is on 100%