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 <agw8@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xfree86-list mailing list > > xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list > > IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > xfree86-list mailing list > xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list > IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
