Mesa 7.11 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

[kraftman]

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.

[kraftman]

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.

[marek]

Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?

Isn't your hardware slow?

[ahlaht]

Setting clock rates manually

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:

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?

[curaga]

Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?

Is your card AGP by any chance?

[Jonno]

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.

[kraftman]

There are indeed new r300g optimizations in 7.11. From the top of my head:
- faster vertex uploads (also on r600g)
- new optimized winsys that completely bypasses (doesn't use) libdrm_radeon
- new fragment shader register allocator

Thanks. I will check this out when 7.11 will get into Arch stable repo.

[kraftman]

r300g is comparable to Catalyst in performance now.

Has been for quite a while.

Then I wonder why it sucks so much on my box?

[fatih]

What are the minimum requirements for drm,libdrm,and co ?

[marek]

It will be great to see some optimizations for r300g, because even Open Arena is hardly playable.

There are indeed new r300g optimizations in 7.11. From the top of my head:
- faster vertex uploads (also on r600g)
- new optimized winsys that completely bypasses (doesn't use) libdrm_radeon
- new fragment shader register allocator