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  • #11
    Originally posted by fatih View Post
    What are the minimum requirements for drm,libdrm,and co ?
    libdrm 2.4.24 is required.
    I believe it is supposed to work with any drm version, but some features and optimizations will be disabled unless you are using drm from at least linux 2.6.39.

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    • #12
      Originally posted by kraftman View Post
      Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?
      Is your card AGP by any chance?

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      • #13
        Setting clock rates manually

        Originally posted by kraftman View Post
        Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?
        That's what I had been wondering with my evergreen card for months until I found out the clock speeds are not set correctly on my system.

        If you haven't already make sure the clocks have been set to something reasonable:
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        cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/radeon_pm_info
        I suspect power management is currently the biggest problem Radeon users have with Mesa.

        I have slowly been doing something to improve the situation because my laptop has several useful clock modes that are not used at all even if I manually set "low", "mid", or "high"! Those almost randomly picked clock modes or the 2 that are used by dynpm are just not good enough in my case.

        I wonder if it would be acceptable for mainline inclusion to make a kernel patch and an user mode program that could be used to manually select sane clock modes for fixed profiles and dynpm? Perhaps it could even be part of driconf?

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        • #14
          Originally posted by kraftman View Post
          Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?
          Isn't your hardware slow?

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          • #15
            Originally posted by curaga View Post
            Is your card AGP by any chance?
            No, it's a PCI E. X1600XT. I will have to check some other games, too. Maybe there's a problem with OA only.

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            • #16
              Originally posted by marek View Post
              Isn't your hardware slow?
              Not for OA or Q3. It was very smooth on my old GF2 MX 400. ;> I have Athlon X2 5000+, 2GB RAM and Ati x1600xt, now.

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              • #17
                Originally posted by ahlaht View Post
                That's what I had been wondering with my evergreen card for months until I found out the clock speeds are not set correctly on my system.

                If you haven't already make sure the clocks have been set to something reasonable:
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                cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/radeon_pm_info
                Thanks, but it seems I don't have such option - there's no such file or directory

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                • #18
                  Originally posted by kraftman View Post
                  Thanks, but it seems I don't have such option - there's no such file or directory
                  Make sure you have debugfs mounted.

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                  • #19
                    Originally posted by whizse View Post
                    Make sure you have debugfs mounted.
                    If it's enough to do: mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug

                    then it doesn't work. I suppose my graphic card doesn't support the feature.

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                    • #20
                      Originally posted by kraftman View Post
                      If it's enough to do: mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug

                      then it doesn't work. I suppose my graphic card doesn't support the feature.
                      It should be enough if your kernel has CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y.

                      From what I remember from the code I think radeon_pm_info should be available even if power management is disabled. (But I might be wrong too.)

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