Re: Once again dual head radeon roblems

Just as another datapoint, I'm seeing high cpu usage and sluggish
performance with CVS compared to 4.3.0 with radeon hw.

Alex

--- Aaron Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
> Simon,
> 	downgrade to 4.3.0-2.  I originally had the same issue where it was
> sucking 
> up 99% of one of my cpu's when moving windows ( especially across
> monitors ).  
> I'm guessing that there is extra code in 4.3.0-10 that isn't
> referenced in 
> the radeon driver that was provided here, so it causes an issue (
> that's just 
> speculation).  using 4.3.0-2 seems to clear it up, atleast for me.
> rpm -Uvh XFree86*.rpm --oldpackages ( get them off the cd )
> -Aaron
> 
> On Wednesday 21 May 2003 8:09 pm, Simon O'Malley wrote:
> > HI
> >
> > I have been browsing the list with interest trying to fix my redhat
> 8
> > Xinerama display.
> >
> > It was working fine with 4.2.99, but I made some upgrades to get
> gnome
> > 2.2 working.
> >
> > Since then it has been hell. I have a radeon 7000 64mb graphics
> card,
> > with a phillips 20 in, ad digital 17 in monitor, hooked up in
> Xinerama,
> > I ended up with the primary screen going black when mouse moved off
> it,
> > so I upgraded to 4.3.0-10 and ended up with the cloned display. I
> found
> > the fix to radeon_cursor.c off the list, so downloaded XFree
> source,
> > fixed the file and recompiled. Suddenly everything worked, what
> joy. You
> > are all wonderful.
> >
> > However, I now have a problem where X uses 99% of my CPU when
> moving a
> > window, what is up with that.
> >
> > System is:
> >
> > AMD Athlon 2000+
> > 512MB DDR Ram
> > 200GB IDE drives
> > HIS ATI Radeon 7000/64MB DDR
> >
> > RedHat 8.0
> > XFree 4.3.0-10 1280x1024x32 on both monitors.
> > OpenBox/KDE or KDM/KDE or XDM/Gnome or XDM/KDE or XDM/Enlightenment
> all
> > us 99% CPU when moving/redrawing windows. When windows are not
> moving X
> > uses hardly anything at all.
> >
> > /var/log/messages nothing useful
> > /var/log/XFree86.0.log  contains the following errors if anyone
> knows
> > what they mean:
> > snip
> > (EE) RADEON(0): XAAInit Error
> > (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration Disabled
> > snip
> > (EE) RADEON(1): XAAInit Error
> > (EE) RADEON(1): Acceleration Disabled
> > snip
> >
> > Help
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
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