Radeon VRAM Optimizations Coming, But Help Is Needed

[matyas]

I think I need a bit of help here. I'm on Ubuntu 13.10, have a Radeon 6550M. I've added Oibaf's PPA, did an update and upgrade. Kernel is vanilla 3.12. The command used for executing the game:
R600_DEBUG=bostats steam steam://rungameid/570
There's no file /tmp/bostats*. What shall I do to investigate/fix this please?

[curaga]

Please try a simple native test first: does "R600_DEBUG=bostats glxgears" produce a file?

If it does, then you need to launch the Steam game differently. I wouldn't know how, perhaps others do?

[matyas]

R600_DEBUG=bostats glxgears does not produce a file for me.

[Veerappan]

R600_DEBUG=bostats glxgears does not produce a file for me.

Are you using a RadeonSI? If so, try RADEON_DEBUG=bostats instead. That environment variable got renamed for the radeonsi driver

Also, feel free to give the output of:
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose R600_DEBUG=bostats RADEON_DEBUG=bostats glxgears

That might give us something to work with.

When running steam games, I just did the following on my HD 6850:
R600_DEBUG=bostats steam

And then launched the game from within steam.


Edit: N/M. I missed that you have a 6550M. But I'll leave the advice here for anyone else with an SI.

[matyas]

I tried
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose R600_DEBUG=bostats RADEON_DEBUG=bostats glxgears
and again no output in /tmp. I even tried with setting TMPDIR to my home directory. Is there any way I can check that I'm running the proper drivers?

[gradinaruvasile]

I tried
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose R600_DEBUG=bostats RADEON_DEBUG=bostats glxgears
and again no output in /tmp. I even tried with setting TMPDIR to my home directory. Is there any way I can check that I'm running the proper drivers?

Maybe these 2 will help

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log| grep "DRI driver"
glxinfo|grep Open

[matyas]

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log| grep "DRI driver"
[ 10.223] (II) RADEON(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: r600


glxinfo|grep Open
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD REDWOOD
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:


Should I be seeing something different if I'm on Oibaf please?

[gradinaruvasile]

Should I be seeing something different if I'm on Oibaf please?

If "Oibaf" means this repo:

https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers

Then you should have mesa 10.1 probably.

What you get by running

apt-cache policy mesa

?

[matyas]

apt-cache policy mesa
N: Unable to locate package mesa

[matyas]

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri
solved the issue, the capturing works now.