Downloading latest git code
I tried downloading the latest git code via git-clone, but as I am behind a firewall, its not working and is timing out. Any way to get it as a http link <maybe some kind soul can host it as a tarball somewhere?> or can point to me to some alternate way to download the latest git snapshot via http?
I am fed up of video tearing in fglrx and wanna try radeon on my x1800 (R520).
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I can finally report success! After going through some of the source and bugzilla I came across the manpage for exa (duh!) and realized I was forgetting to set AccelDFS to on! After adding that to my device section Xv acceleration is properly compositing, and outputing planet earth in 720p resulted in 4% CPU utilization even when dragging around the wobbly window.
Things seem to be more stable than EXA with AccelDFS off as well. The only problem I'm yet to see (in about 30 minutes of use) is that emerald is messing up the title bar of my windows.
I'm going to see if I can do any patching of mplayer to autodetected the TexturedVideo pseudo adapter and automatically output to it.
Thanks again devs, this is a good step forward!
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Originally posted by agd5f View PostSwitch to EXA. XAA does not provide a mechanism to migrate pixmaps from system ram to vram.
Originally posted by bitnick View PostI'd love to try it out, but unfortunately, for some reason, with AccelMethod=EXA my desktop freezes over (no keyboard or screen updates) when I try to start gnome-terminal, which I usually use to start compiz. (Everything else seems to work fine. Weird.) At the moment I do not have another computer nearby to log in with to check what's going on. Ctrl-Alt-Fx doesn't work, not even SysRq.
I've never really gotten EXA to work; 2D updates like resizing a window is unbearably slow, like 2-3 draws per second. (This is on a R420.) Perhaps we should let others test this, and I'll get back with results if I get EXA going.
Maybe this is just a R420 issue?
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Originally posted by NaterGator View PostIt's good to see Xv texture support coming, but at this point EXA is so much less mature compared to XAA that it makes everything else not worth it
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Here is the same for me:
Code:Textured: BENCHMARKs: VC: 99.624s VO: 0.901s A: 0.000s Sys: 6.640s = 107.166s BENCHMARK%: VC: 92.9629% VO: 0.8409% A: 0.0000% Sys: 6.1962% = 100.0000% Overlay: BENCHMARKs: VC: 97.977s VO: 0.993s A: 0.000s Sys: 7.731s = 106.702s BENCHMARK%: VC: 91.8236% VO: 0.9305% A: 0.0000% Sys: 7.2458% = 100.0000%
My gripe is that EXA is unusably slow for some reason. It just pegs my CPU usage for no good reason (scrolling in xterm, for example) where as XAA is fine. I get ~5900fps in glxgears with EXA and ~6200fps with XAA.
It's good to see Xv texture support coming, but at this point EXA is so much less mature compared to XAA that it makes everything else not worth it
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Textured video working on R100
I have just tested the new Radeon driver from git, and the Textured Video adapter for R100 seems to be working OK. Using mplayer -nosound -benchmark, I get the following information for Textured and Overlay adapters:
Code:Textured: BENCHMARKs: VC: 71.091s VO: 20.266s A: 0.000s Sys: 4.363s = 95.720s BENCHMARK%: VC: 74.2695% VO: 21.1721% A: 0.0000% Sys: 4.5585% = 100.0000% Overlay: BENCHMARKs: VC: 70.628s VO: 12.017s A: 0.000s Sys: 3.725s = 86.369s BENCHMARK%: VC: 81.7738% VO: 13.9137% A: 0.0000% Sys: 4.3125% = 100.0000%
Last edited by chrisr; 01 March 2008, 04:27 PM.
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Originally posted by greg View PostThis works for me. I get a notice about Render and textured video being enabled in Xorg.0.log and I can use it by forcing Xv port 74. However, the textured video ports are not listed in the xvinfo output and the scaling of textured video doesn't use any filtering (only nearest neighbour). Otherwise it works fine, also in conjunction with compositing.
I tested accelerated rotation and it worked fine, too. I wonder why the acceleration is still disabled by default.
EDIT: chipset is XPRESS 200M 5955.
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Originally posted by agd5f View PostThis patch enables exa render accel (for rotation) and textured video for XPRESS cards:
Let me know if it works.
I tested accelerated rotation and it worked fine, too. I wonder why the acceleration is still disabled by default.
EDIT: chipset is XPRESS 200M 5955.Last edited by greg; 01 March 2008, 09:12 AM.
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Originally posted by givemesugarr View Postdri works, but on xv overlay you cannot use any opengl app. also you'd have to turn the mtrr to on, while on fglrx you have to have it on off. i've also seen that i have depth moves and page flipping enabled with radeon.
Can it be because of my Samsung R40 laptop, which has no separate videomemory? Videocard can only use shared memory
//sorry for my english
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in the current driver version the image corruption when moving a texturedvideo window partially off-screen (without composite) is fixed when moving the window out at the right or bottom border.
but when moving the window out at the left border the right part of the video is not redrawn and you cannot move the video over the top border (you can move the window, but the video itself does not move higher).
somehow these changes also broke overscan as used by tvtime. i remember that this was also broken in fglrx-overlay for a long time, but they fixed it eventually...
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