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MageSlayer
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:03 pm    Post subject: ati-drivers slow scrolling Reply with quote

Hi

Sometimes for no apparent reason, I experience an awful slow window scrolling. One can see "waves".
It happens in every window, but manifests itself in large areas much greater. Looks like it depends on a size of a scrolling area.

I am on 2.6.36.2 vanilla + BFS v.360 + ati-drivers 11.3
Any hints?

P.S. I cannot use xf86-video-ati, as it does not support OpenCL.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's the price of using fglrx. You might be able to regain some semblance of a usable desktop by disabling all compositing though.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seriously? Theres no solution for this?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ant P. wrote:
That's the price of using fglrx. You might be able to regain some semblance of a usable desktop by disabling all compositing though.


Compositing is already disabled by:
Code:

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "off"
EndSection


... and does not help.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you paste the xorg.conf? You can also try a blank xorg.conf and use aticonfig --initial to create a default one.
I had the same issue after a driver update and this worked for me, so i created a new xorg.conf and checked every new option i add.
Also check if direct rendering etc. is working, a look at the xorg.log is also helpful.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

norg wrote:
Can you paste the xorg.conf? You can also try a blank xorg.conf and use aticonfig --initial to create a default one.
I had the same issue after a driver update and this worked for me, so i created a new xorg.conf and checked every new option i add.
Also check if direct rendering etc. is working, a look at the xorg.log is also helpful.


Nothing is fancy in xorg.conf
See below. It is almost exactly initial configuration done by aticonfig.

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
   Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" 0 0
   Screen         "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" LeftOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
   #Option           "AIGLX" "false"
   Option           "AIGLX" "True"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
# The module search path.  The default path is shown here.
#    ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/default/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/terminus/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
   Option       "Xinerama" "on"
   Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
   Option       "IgnoreABI" "on"
   Option       "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
   Option       "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
   Option       "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
   Option       "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
   Option       "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
   Option       "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
   Option       "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"

   #Option       "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
   #Option       "FSAAEnable" "off"
   #Option       "FSAADisableGamma" "off"
   Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
   Driver      "fglrx"
   Option       "UseFastTLS" "off"
   Option       "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
   Option       "BlockSignalsOnLock" "off"
   #Option       "BackingStore" "on"
   Option       "BackingStore" "off"
   Option       "VideoOverlay" "off"
   #Option       "EnableTearFreeDesktop" "true"
   Option       "EnableTearFreeDesktop" "false"
   Option       "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
   Option       "RequestMSI" "false"
   #Option       "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"
   BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
   Driver      "fglrx"
   BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
   Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
   Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
   Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
   DefaultDepth     24
   #Option       "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
   Option       "RenderAccel" "True"
   Option       "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
   Option       "backingstore" "True"
   Option       "TripleBuffer" "True"
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     24
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
   Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
   Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
   DefaultDepth     24
   #Option       "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
   Option       "RenderAccel" "True"
   Option       "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
   Option       "backingstore" "True"
   Option       "TripleBuffer" "True"
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     24
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "off"
EndSection
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try the instructions here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2

I had the same issues with xinerama/fglrx. Turns out xrandr works MUCH better, and your xorg.conf ends up cleaner.

My thread on the topic at Phoronix where I got help is: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?45842-New-to-ATI-on-Linux-need-some-help

Edit: I was able to get compositing and dual head with this method.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zBrain wrote:
Try the instructions here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2

I had the same issues with xinerama/fglrx. Turns out xrandr works MUCH better, and your xorg.conf ends up cleaner.

My thread on the topic at Phoronix where I got help is: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?45842-New-to-ATI-on-Linux-need-some-help

Edit: I was able to get compositing and dual head with this method.


Thanks for hint. It looks like it really works better.
But the problem that I cannot force to initialize X in Virtual/xinerama-like (dual monitor configuration) desktop mode.
I was able to start in clone mode (both monitors show the same image) using following xorg.conf.

Running ...
Code:
 xrandr --output DFP2 --right-of DFP4

... after start makes it work as expected. But I think that kind of trick should not be necessary.

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
   Option           "AIGLX" "True"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
# The module search path.  The default path is shown here.
#    ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/default/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/terminus/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
   #Option       "Xinerama" "on"
   Option       "Xinerama" "off"
   Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
   Option       "IgnoreABI" "on"
   Option       "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"

   Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
   Driver      "fglrx"
   Option       "UseFastTLS" "0"
   #Option       "EnableTearFreeDesktop" "true"
   Option       "EnableTearFreeDesktop" "false"
   #Option       "Capabilities" "0x00000800"

   Option "Monitor-DFP2" "monLeft"
    Option "Monitor-DFP4" "monRight"

   #Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal" # does not work and one of the monitors is turned off!!!
   #Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal,reverse" # does not work and one of the monitors is turned off!!!

   #Option "PairMode" "2048x1152+2048x1152" # does not work
   #Option      "MonitorLayout" "DFP2,DFP4" # does not work

   BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "monLeft"
     Option "DPMS"

   Option "PreferredMode" "2048x1152"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monRight"

   #Option "RightOf" "DFP2" # does not work and one of the monitors is turned off!!!

    Option "DPMS"
   Option "PreferredMode" "2048x1152"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
   Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
   Monitor    "MonLeft"
   DefaultDepth     24
   SubSection "Display"
      Modes    "2048x1152" "1280x1024"
      Depth     24
      Virtual 4096 4096
                #Virtual 3328 1152
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "off"
EndSection


Am I missing something obvious?
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