On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14.09.2014 03:13, Christoph Brill wrote: >> >> Am 08.09.2014 03:41 schrieb "Michel Dänzer" <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:michel@xxxxxxxxxxx>>: >> >> > On 07.09.2014 01:01, Christoph Brill wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm currently trying to get a HD 4670 aka RV730 XT to work against >> X.org >> >> 1.16, xf86-video-ati 7.4.0 on a Linux 3.16.1. >> >> >> >> Can anyone tell me: Should this card be able to handle an average >> Gnome >> >> desktop? >> > >> > >> > Of course. >> > >> > >> > >> >> The problem was: 3D rendering did not work at all. >> >> >> >> Starting gdm lead to hanging Xorg. Calling glxgears on a twm session >> >> just rendered a black window, which stayed even if the process was >> >> killed by CTRL+C. I managed to get glxgears do do its job by setting >> >> "vblank_mode=0". >> >> >> >> I guessed my card does not like to play along with vsync at all. So I >> >> went ahead to disable vsyncing (tearing is still better than no >> display >> >> at all). Setting it globally in /etc/drirc seems to get glxgears >> running. >> >> >> >> Testing Xonotic on twm showed, that the card was now able to handle >> 3D. >> >> But: gdm still was extremely sluggish and eventually froze. Starting >> >> gnome-shell directly from startx gets me to the desktop, but any >> action >> >> freezes the process. >> >> >> >> Is there still hope for this card or should I get rid of it? >> > >> > >> > It sounds like there's a problem with interrupt processing on your >> system. Please provide the dmesg output. You might try >> disabling/enabling MSI to see if that works around the problem. >> >> Thank you so much for this hint! Booting using radeon.msi=0 finally >> brings the system into a usable state. The dmesg of a default boot (i.e. >> radeon.msi=-1) is available at http://pastebin.com/gS1xHYPc > > > Can you file a bug report at > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=DRI component > "DRM/Radeon" and attach the dmesg output there? > Also mention what chipset your system uses and whether the card is AGP or not. Alex _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
