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  • RadeonHD 3650 AGP on Arch Linux

    ---n00b help hotline!---

    Hello! I just finished installing and (somewhat) configuring the latest batch of Arch Linux on a primary partition.

    Trouble is, both KDE 4.2 and XFCE 4.6 are slower than frozen molasses at rendering anything, so I know my xorg.conf needs tweaking

    I used "Xorg -configure" as root to generate a sample xorg.conf file after installing X, and this is what it produced:

    Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "X.org Configured"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    EndSection

    Section "Files"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    EndSection

    Section "Module"
    Load "record"
    Load "glx"
    Load "dri"
    Load "dbe"
    Load "extmod"
    Load "dri2"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    #DisplaySize 320 240 # mm
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "GWY"
    ModelName "8b1b"
    HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
    VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
    Option "DPMS"
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    ### Available Driver options are:-
    ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
    ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
    ### [arg]: arg optional
    #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
    #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
    #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
    #Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
    #Option "BusType" # [<str>]
    #Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
    #Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i>
    #Option "AGPMode" # <i>
    #Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
    #Option "AGPSize" # <i>
    #Option "GARTSize" # <i>
    #Option "RingSize" # <i>
    #Option "BufferSize" # <i>
    #Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
    #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
    #Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
    #Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>]
    #Option "FBTexPercent" # <i>
    #Option "DepthBits" # <i>
    #Option "PCIAPERSize" # <i>
    #Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>]
    #Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
    #Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
    #Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
    #Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
    #Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>]
    #Option "VideoKey" # <i>
    #Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # <i>
    #Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" # <i>
    #Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # <i>
    #Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # <i>
    #Option "TunerType" # <i>
    #Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str>
    #Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str>
    #Option "ScalerWidth" # <i>
    #Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
    #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
    #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
    #Option "DynamicClocks" # [<bool>]
    #Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>]
    #Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>]
    #Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>]
    #Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
    #Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
    #Option "ConnectorTable" # <str>
    #Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # [<bool>]
    #Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # [<bool>]
    #Option "TVDACLoadDetect" # [<bool>]
    #Option "ForceTVOut" # [<bool>]
    #Option "TVStandard" # <str>
    #Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # [<bool>]
    #Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # [<bool>]
    #Option "Int10" # [<bool>]
    #Option "EXAVSync" # [<bool>]
    #Option "ATOMTVOut" # [<bool>]
    #Option "R4xxATOM" # [<bool>]
    Identifier "Card0"
    Driver "radeon"
    VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName "RV635 PRO AGP [Radeon HD 3650]"
    BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Card0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 24
    EndSubSection
    EndSection
    There are a lot of options under the "Device" section! Basically, all I'm interested in is full-speed EXA and Xv acceleration and decent powersaving. What would be my best course of action?

    I'm running Arch Linux with AMD64 kernel 2.6.30, xorg 1.6.2 RC1, and xf86-video-ati 6.12.2-2

    EDIT: If needed, here's a pastebin of my most recent Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/f22ffef7b
    Last edited by Darkfire Fox; 25 June 2009, 09:55 PM.

  • #2
    Code:
    (EE) AIGLX error: Calling driver entry point failed(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
    That probably says it all. Can you get by with the proprietary drivers (fglrx)?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by forum1793 View Post
      Code:
      (EE) AIGLX error: Calling driver entry point failed(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
      That probably says it all. Can you get by with the proprietary drivers (fglrx)?
      Fglrx!?

      I FORBID IT !!!

      Next idea!

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      • #4
        I didn't see anything obviously wrong in your xorg log. Are the textured video ports showing up when you run xvinfo ?

        It seems to take a bit of careful negotiation to get KDE to use XREender for compositing (rather than GL); are you pretty sure that it is really using XRender ?

        I thought XFCE only used XRender but I haven't looked at it for a while...
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        • #5
          Originally posted by bridgman View Post
          I didn't see anything obviously wrong in your xorg log. Are the textured video ports showing up when you run xvinfo ?

          It seems to take a bit of careful negotiation to get KDE to use XREender for compositing (rather than GL); are you pretty sure that it is really using XRender ?

          I thought XFCE only used XRender but I haven't looked at it for a while...
          Erm, I think we're on two different pages, Bridgman. I haven't tried any form of compositing yet. I was simply saying that my Arch desktops are unbearably slow at drawing anything. But my Ubuntu partition is pretty snappy.

          This is why I'm asking about my xorg.conf file and the "Device" options. Do I need to manually activate EXA/DRI?

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          • #6
            Sorry; most of the time I hear XFCE mentioned the users have compositing and eye candy turned on. Naturally I assumed...

            Your log seems to indicate that acceleration is working OK :

            (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
            (II) Solid
            (II) Copy
            (II) Composite (RENDER acceleration)
            (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
            It might be worth turning on compositing; once the first round of performance optimizations were made you didn't *have* to enable compositing to get decent 2D performance but my recollection was that it did help on some OSes.
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            • #7
              Update: I just now manually edited xorg.conf

              Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
              Option "DRI" "True"

              XFCE 4.6 on Arch Linux now draws like lightning. I'll test more stuff tomorrow. Good night.

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              • #8
                Interesting... I wouldn't have expected those settings to make a difference, since they are the default values and the log seemed to indicate everything was hooked up and running already. Maybe something AGP-related ?

                Anyways, glad it's working for you... and now we have a nice little puzzle for agd5f
                Last edited by bridgman; 26 June 2009, 05:54 AM.
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