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I've recently purchased a new computer (around July 2010) and I've been having some problems with proprietary video drivers on linux.
The Hardware:
Video ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5870 (XFX HD-587X-ZNFC)
Motherboard Asus P7P55D-E Deluxe
Processor Intel i5 750
Memory Kingston Hyperx KHX1600C8D3K2/4GX (2x - 8GB Total)
Power Supply XFX P1-750B-CAG9
There are no overclocks, not even the memories (they are at 1333mhz due processor memory controller limitation)
The Current Software (Own distribution):
Arch x86_64 (multilib)
Kernel 2.6.35.10
Xorg 7.5
wmii-3.9.2
Catalyst 10.12
There are no desktop effects programs like compiz fusion
The problems:
With ATI/AMD proprietary driver (fglrx), some applications are with slow draw/redraw
--
xpdf
Painfull slow scrolling;
--
display (from ImageMagick)
Slow menus and sometimes slow image redraw;
--
xterm
Flickers a lot when drawing continuous output
Examples:
mplayer time info flickers on terminal;
"find /" flickers a lot (It takes some time to stop with control-c. But, If I change the workspace or put some window upon it, just after the control-c, It stops instantly);
"cat somefile" if the file is big (Xorg.0.log for example) it takes some time to display;
vim and less (ex: find / | less) don't have much problems, just a little flicker;
--
mplayer (no gui)
Slow reproduction and seek with -vo x11;
Tearing with -vo xv;
Time info flickers on terminal (xterm consequence);
--
gvim
A little slow draw when scrolling with page up/page down;
--
firefox
Slow draw/redraw on some pages like www.boadica.com.br (never noticed on many pages);
Corruptions when informative yellow boxes are showing and scroll the page;
--
"Wallpaper"
After minimizing a fullscreen window or changing to an empty workspace it takes *some* time to redraw wallpaper.I've made a gif to explain that. http://img210.imageshack.us/i/animation2qn.gif/ (not so slow like in the gif, but that is what happens);
--
"Video Card"
The core and memory clocks are increased with the events described above and on other situations like change workspace (even without wallpaper);
Idle clocks: Core: 157mhz, Memory: 300mhz
Full clocks: Core: 850mhz, Memory: 1200mhz
--
Programs that I use and are apparently without problems:
gimp, pidgin;
mplayer (-vo gl, gl2);
blender, unigine heaven (better fps than on windows);
doom3, tibia, penumbra overture, amnesia the dark descent (wine), diablo 2 (wine);
No problems on windows (Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit).
And special attention to this:
Full desktop effects on ubuntu/debian don't cause ANY problems, even the core and memory clocks don't increase with the effects.
Unsucessfull tests:
Tested with all drivers versions since 10.6 (released approximately when I've installed the first slackware in this PC);
Tested other video card - ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5570 (XFX HD-557X-ZHF2);
Tested some options on xorg.conf and amdpcsdb that I've found googling;
Tested other distros and software versions:
Tested XORG-7.6 on my own distribution;
Tested Debian Squeeze (testing - from 2010-12-20);
Tested Ubuntu Marverick (10.10);
Tested Slackware 13.1;
Notes for that distros:
Arch i386;
All default software (kernel, gnome, xorg, drivers) except in slackware that don't have the catalyst by default;
Sucessfull tests:
Tested other video card - NVIDIA Geforce 7300GS with driver 260.19.29;
Tested other hardware:
Video ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5570 (XFX HD-557X-ZHF2);
Motherboard Intel DG31PR;
Processor Core 2 Duo E6750;
Tested with fresh install of same distros with same program versions;
That video card (HD 5570) clocks were full time at the maximum (something like 500/750, don't remember) in all the operational systems (Windows xp and Windows 7 too), but it didn't show the same problems that I have here.
I don't dispose of other video cards to make more tests, like nvidia gtx 200~400~500 or Radeon HD 4000/6000.
I've googled a lot about common problems with ATI/AMD driver for linux and didn't find anything, except by the firefox corruptions, that the solutions were to disable ATI Direct2DAccel and use XAA. With XAA the problems persists and the other applications like pidgin and rest of firefox were shows the same problem of slow draw/redraw.
With opensource drivers, I hadn't the same draw problems, but, had other problems that I don't know if it can be discussed in this forum session.
What I need from the system:
Good power saving (like that have in windows)
Opengl working properly
(don't need full features of video card, just need stability for use with overall opengl applications like blender and some developed by myself and friends)
Logs and Configs:
kernel .config:
dmesg:
xorg package list:
xorg.conf:
Xorg.0.log:
I've recently purchased a new computer (around July 2010) and I've been having some problems with proprietary video drivers on linux.
The Hardware:
Video ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5870 (XFX HD-587X-ZNFC)
Motherboard Asus P7P55D-E Deluxe
Processor Intel i5 750
Memory Kingston Hyperx KHX1600C8D3K2/4GX (2x - 8GB Total)
Power Supply XFX P1-750B-CAG9
There are no overclocks, not even the memories (they are at 1333mhz due processor memory controller limitation)
The Current Software (Own distribution):
Arch x86_64 (multilib)
Kernel 2.6.35.10
Xorg 7.5
wmii-3.9.2
Catalyst 10.12
There are no desktop effects programs like compiz fusion
The problems:
With ATI/AMD proprietary driver (fglrx), some applications are with slow draw/redraw
--
xpdf
Painfull slow scrolling;
--
display (from ImageMagick)
Slow menus and sometimes slow image redraw;
--
xterm
Flickers a lot when drawing continuous output
Examples:
mplayer time info flickers on terminal;
"find /" flickers a lot (It takes some time to stop with control-c. But, If I change the workspace or put some window upon it, just after the control-c, It stops instantly);
"cat somefile" if the file is big (Xorg.0.log for example) it takes some time to display;
vim and less (ex: find / | less) don't have much problems, just a little flicker;
--
mplayer (no gui)
Slow reproduction and seek with -vo x11;
Tearing with -vo xv;
Time info flickers on terminal (xterm consequence);
--
gvim
A little slow draw when scrolling with page up/page down;
--
firefox
Slow draw/redraw on some pages like www.boadica.com.br (never noticed on many pages);
Corruptions when informative yellow boxes are showing and scroll the page;
--
"Wallpaper"
After minimizing a fullscreen window or changing to an empty workspace it takes *some* time to redraw wallpaper.I've made a gif to explain that. http://img210.imageshack.us/i/animation2qn.gif/ (not so slow like in the gif, but that is what happens);
--
"Video Card"
The core and memory clocks are increased with the events described above and on other situations like change workspace (even without wallpaper);
Idle clocks: Core: 157mhz, Memory: 300mhz
Full clocks: Core: 850mhz, Memory: 1200mhz
--
Programs that I use and are apparently without problems:
gimp, pidgin;
mplayer (-vo gl, gl2);
blender, unigine heaven (better fps than on windows);
doom3, tibia, penumbra overture, amnesia the dark descent (wine), diablo 2 (wine);
No problems on windows (Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit).
And special attention to this:
Full desktop effects on ubuntu/debian don't cause ANY problems, even the core and memory clocks don't increase with the effects.
Unsucessfull tests:
Tested with all drivers versions since 10.6 (released approximately when I've installed the first slackware in this PC);
Tested other video card - ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5570 (XFX HD-557X-ZHF2);
Tested some options on xorg.conf and amdpcsdb that I've found googling;
Tested other distros and software versions:
Tested XORG-7.6 on my own distribution;
Tested Debian Squeeze (testing - from 2010-12-20);
Tested Ubuntu Marverick (10.10);
Tested Slackware 13.1;
Notes for that distros:
Arch i386;
All default software (kernel, gnome, xorg, drivers) except in slackware that don't have the catalyst by default;
Sucessfull tests:
Tested other video card - NVIDIA Geforce 7300GS with driver 260.19.29;
Tested other hardware:
Video ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5570 (XFX HD-557X-ZHF2);
Motherboard Intel DG31PR;
Processor Core 2 Duo E6750;
Tested with fresh install of same distros with same program versions;
That video card (HD 5570) clocks were full time at the maximum (something like 500/750, don't remember) in all the operational systems (Windows xp and Windows 7 too), but it didn't show the same problems that I have here.
I don't dispose of other video cards to make more tests, like nvidia gtx 200~400~500 or Radeon HD 4000/6000.
I've googled a lot about common problems with ATI/AMD driver for linux and didn't find anything, except by the firefox corruptions, that the solutions were to disable ATI Direct2DAccel and use XAA. With XAA the problems persists and the other applications like pidgin and rest of firefox were shows the same problem of slow draw/redraw.
With opensource drivers, I hadn't the same draw problems, but, had other problems that I don't know if it can be discussed in this forum session.
What I need from the system:
Good power saving (like that have in windows)
Opengl working properly
(don't need full features of video card, just need stability for use with overall opengl applications like blender and some developed by myself and friends)
Logs and Configs:
kernel .config:
dmesg:
xorg package list:
xorg.conf:
Xorg.0.log:
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