Radeon Power Management Gets More Fixes For 3.11

[Alejandro Nova]

This. Also: the more we test that, the more quickly DPM will get fixed. My E-450 wasn't booting at all with RC1 + DPM (WSoD), but the bugfixing patches between RC1 and RC2 saved the day.

[Alejandro Nova]

Replying to myself: there is a new package in a special Fedora repository that does the trick. So, my E-450 netbook, with Fedora 19 with special repos, Mesa from yesterday, and with a special firmware folder setup (I deleted /usr/lib/firmware and replaced it with a git clone of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git ), is running like a dream. Same battery life as Catalyst, none of Catalyst bugs, splendid 2D performance, more than adequate 3D performance, VDPAU video acceleration... This is amazing.

The only things missing seem to be:

1. Are E-450 Turbo GPU speeds supported by DPM?
2. OpenGL 4.x

[brent]

1. Are E-450 Turbo GPU speeds supported by DPM?

Yes, turbo is fully supported.

[oibaf]

Is there a plan to support older GPU (R500)?

Thanks.

[benmoran]

.... So, my E-450 netbook, with Fedora 19 with special repos, Mesa from yesterday, and with a special firmware folder setup is running like a dream. Same battery life as Catalyst, none of Catalyst bugs, splendid 2D performance, more than adequate 3D performance, VDPAU video acceleration... This is amazing.

Great to hear. I have an E-450 m-itx board for my home theater PC, and I've been looking forward to dumping Catalyst. I haven't tested it too much myself, because breaking it would mean that I can't watch TV


FGLRX, with XVBA, doesn't seem to support MPEG2 hardware decoding (only h264, VC1), but if I understand correctly the Free driver implementation does. If so that is seriously awesome, because HDTV is broadcast here in super high bitrate MPEG2 + aac. My E-450 is able to decode it on the CPU, but just barely. It'll be nice not having the CPU running at 98% all the time.

[curaga]

Is there a plan to support older GPU (R500)?

Thanks.

No, they don't have the power hw. Search for bridgman/agd5f posts, CBA to look it up now.

[Alejandro Nova]

Now there are new firmware packages for F19, so no git custom firmware setup needed; we only need the special kernel repo.

It looks like there are Fedora package maintainers reading this thread .

[Alejandro Nova]

Great to hear. I have an E-450 m-itx board for my home theater PC, and I've been looking forward to dumping Catalyst. I haven't tested it too much myself, because breaking it would mean that I can't watch TV


FGLRX, with XVBA, doesn't seem to support MPEG2 hardware decoding (only h264, VC1), but if I understand correctly the Free driver implementation does. If so that is seriously awesome, because HDTV is broadcast here in super high bitrate MPEG2 + aac. My E-450 is able to decode it on the CPU, but just barely. It'll be nice not having the CPU running at 98% all the time.

I was able to decode some Shingeki no Kyoujin 720p videos with Mplayer2 and VDPAU at 12% CPU usage (you know that's impossible for an E-450 without HW assistance), but the Gallium VDPAU state tracker seems to be picky about the quality of your videos. Test, test and test, and report back any bug.

[Alejandro Nova]

It's me again. You won't have any issues anymore with today's Fedora update.

elyria@hydragiros ~$ vdpauinfo
display: :0   screen: 0
API version: 1
Information string: G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0

Video surface:

name   width height types
-------------------------------------------
420    16384 16384  NV12 
422    16384 16384  NV12 
444    16384 16384  NV12 

Decoder capabilities:

name               level macbs width height
-------------------------------------------
MPEG1                16  9216  2048  1152
MPEG2_SIMPLE         16  9216  2048  1152
MPEG2_MAIN           16  9216  2048  1152
H264_BASELINE        16  9216  2048  1152
H264_MAIN            16  9216  2048  1152
H264_HIGH            16  9216  2048  1152
VC1_SIMPLE           16  9216  2048  1152
VC1_MAIN             16  9216  2048  1152
VC1_ADVANCED         16  9216  2048  1152
MPEG4_PART2_SP       16  9216  2048  1152
MPEG4_PART2_ASP      16  9216  2048  1152

Output surface:

name              width height nat types
----------------------------------------------------
B8G8R8A8         16384 16384    y  NV12 
R8G8B8A8         16384 16384    y  NV12 
R10G10B10A2      16384 16384    y  NV12 
B10G10R10A2      16384 16384    y  NV12 

Bitmap surface:

name              width height
------------------------------
B8G8R8A8         16384 16384
R8G8B8A8         16384 16384
R10G10B10A2      16384 16384
B10G10R10A2      16384 16384
A8               16384 16384

Video mixer:

feature name                    sup
------------------------------------
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL             -
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL     -
INVERSE_TELECINE                 -
NOISE_REDUCTION                  y
SHARPNESS                        y
LUMA_KEY                         -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L1        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L2        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L3        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L4        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L5        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L6        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L7        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L8        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L9        -

parameter name                  sup      min      max
-----------------------------------------------------
VIDEO_SURFACE_WIDTH              y        48     2048
VIDEO_SURFACE_HEIGHT             y        48     1152
CHROMA_TYPE                      y  
LAYERS                           y         0        4

attribute name                  sup      min      max
-----------------------------------------------------
BACKGROUND_COLOR                 y  
CSC_MATRIX                       y  
NOISE_REDUCTION_LEVEL            y      0.00     1.00
SHARPNESS_LEVEL                  y     -1.00     1.00
LUMA_KEY_MIN_LUMA                y  
LUMA_KEY_MAX_LUMA                y

What you want is MPEG2_MAIN. VDPAU + the free driver gives it.

[pixo]

Hd 6870

Anyone has DPM working on HD 6870 [BARTS]?
I get black screen right after the module loads on 3.11-rc[1-3] with radeon.dpm=1 .
GCC is 4.8.1 and I have all the latest BARTS firmware.