On 03/22/2011 03:32 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:45:54 Dale wrote: >> Bill Longman wrote: >>> On 03/20/2011 12:09 PM, Mick wrote: >>>> On Sunday 20 March 2011 18:38:00 Mick wrote: >>>>> On Saturday 19 March 2011 23:02:11 Jorge Martínez López wrote: >>>>>> I also have an ATI card and I do suffer the slow compositing. I solved >>>>>> it by switching back to the classic Mesa (instead of Gallium). >>>>> >>>>> Thanks Jorge, >>>>> >>>>> I switched to classic too and now it does not crash - however: >>>>> >>>>> 1. When I start kde compositing is disabled. >>>>> >>>>> 2. If I click on Resume Compositing, then the first time I try it I get >>>>> a notification saying: "Compositing has been suspended by another >>>>> application" and it remains disabled. >>>>> >>>>> 3. The second time I try to resume compositing it works! >>>>> >>>>> 4. If at that stage I exit/restart KDE compositing is disabled again >>>>> ... o_O >>>>> >>>>> Why is this happening? What other application is clashing or causing >>>>> compositing not to take? >>>> >>>> BTW, I just tried this on an older Pentium 4 32bit box with an ATI >>>> Radeon X600 (RV380) and it is exhibiting similar symptoms, except that >>>> if I try to resume compositing a second time kwin crashes. >>> >>> I have an AMD Phenom II X4 940 with an Radeon 4870 that loves to crash >>> when I turn on compositing. OpenGL works wonderfully until it crashes >>> kwin. XRender chews up so much CPU I'd rather not have it. >>> >>> I have an AMD Athlon II X4 635 with an onboard Radeon 4200 that loves to >>> crash when I turn on compositing. >>> >>> Both these boxes have SB700/SB800 chipsets. I use xdm on the former and >>> manually run X on the other. Same problem on both. >>> >>> I did not have this problem in xorg-server 1.7 series. >> >> I have a very similar setup and it works fine here, AMD Phenom II X4 955 >> Deneb 3.2GHz with a Nvidia GT-220 video card. I also have the >> SB700/SB800 chipset as well, Gigabyte mobo. The biggest difference I >> see is the video card as far as hardware is concerned. >> >> Software, I'm on xorg-server-1.9 here. I never tried the older series >> on this rig. I also still have a xorg.conf file too. May not matter >> but just upgraded to a 2.6.38 kernel. Also, no hal here either which is >> why I went with that xorg version during my install. >> >> I hope this little bit of info helps in some small way. If you need >> more info about my setup, let me know. > > So this seems like the xorg-1.9 driver won't play nicely with ATI video > cards. > FYI mesa classic seems to be better than gallium, although both crash. As > already reported xrender works, but eats up resources. > > Will have to wait for later versions it seems.
Well after fifteen minutes of no crashes, here are my settings: $ emerge -pv xorg-server mesa cairo $(qlist -IC x11-drivers) These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/radeon-ucode-20110106 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-7.9.1 USE="classic nptl -debug -gallium -gles -llvm -motif -pic (-selinux)" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon -intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r128 -savage -sis -tdfx -via -vmware" 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.5 USE="ipv6 kdrive nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc -minimal -static-libs -tslib" 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-libs/cairo-1.10.2-r1 USE="X opengl qt4 svg xcb (-aqua) -debug -directfb -doc (-drm) (-gallium) (-openvg) -static-libs" 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.5.0 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.6.0 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.0 0 kB My kernel is 2.6.36-r5 gentoo-sources running on the AMD Athlon II X4 machine: $ zgrep RADEON /proc/config.gz CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG is not set Wonderfully wobbly windows once again, without widespread (and unwelcomed) untimely terminations.
