Performance issues with Radeon 9000

[Tony]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:26 -0400, Jay Estabrook wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:44:42AM -0500, Hoover, Tony wrote:
> >
> > I just got my SX running AC1.0 with a Radeon 9000 PCI late last week, and
> > have been a bit disappointed in the GL performance.  I'm getting less than 5
> > Frames per Second on most of the 3D screen savers.  
> 
> Remind me: the 9000 has what chipset?

(--) PCI:*(0:6:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] rev
1

> 
> > I assume that the 3D rendering is being done in software, instead of the 3D
> > engine in the Radeon.  How can I enable it to use the 3D acceleration of the
> > graphics card?
> 
> Is it possible that there's no
> 
> 	Load  "dri"
> 
> int the config file?


Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "dri"
EndSection

Nope, it's there.

> 
> Also, it may be that 6.7 didn't support the 9000 chipset; you could try
> the 6.8.2 version from the "development" tree if you're brave... ;-}
> 

This is 6.8.1, according to the log file

does this snippet from my log mean anything?:

(II) RADEON(0): Dynamic Clock Scaling Disabled
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:00:06.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:00:06.0
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "radeon" driver
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid
"pci:0000:00:06.0"
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xfffffffc00446000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xfffffffc00446000 to 0x2000001c000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x10000000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel
module
is loaded before the radeon kernel module.
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xfffffffc00446000
at 0x2000001c000
(II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1280,8191)
(II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1024) to (1280,1026)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7165
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
        Screen to screen bit blits
        Solid filled rectangles
        8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
        Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
        Solid Lines
        Scanline Image Writes
        Offscreen Pixmaps
        Setting up tile and stipple cache:
                32 128x128 slots
                32 256x256 slots
                16 512x512 slots
(II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
(==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
(==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1026)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7161
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(==) RandR enabled

but that dev exists...

[hoover at sx ~]$ ls -la /dev/dri
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     60 Oct  2 14:42 .
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root   5000 Oct  2 14:42 ..
crw-rw-rw-   1 root root 226, 0 Oct  2 14:42 card0




Sorry if I included too much info, but I figured it's better to give too
much instead of too little.

Thanks in advance for any troubleshooting.

Tony
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