Description of problem: I have been forced to reinstall my graphics card ATI Radeon 9250 Pro which worked fine with Mageia Linux 1 and Mandriva but I cannot select the category "ATI Radeon 9250 and earlier" anymore, "ATI Radeon X1950 and earlier" is selected by default. All OpenGL applications are extremely slow, absolutely unusable. I almost always have to press CTRL+ALT+F3 to use the terminal to send a SIGTERM signal to kill the process. Keep in mind that some other users tried to install Mageia with it and only got a black screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): x11-driver-video-ati-6.14.4-1.mga2.i586.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Mageia Linux 2 with a supported graphics card 2. Replace your current graphics card by an ATI Radeon 9250 Pro 3. Reboot
CC: (none) => gouessejSource RPM: (none) => x11-driver-video-ati-6.14.4-1.mga2.i586.rpm
I get this error message in the log: libEGL warning: failed to create a pipe screen for r200 One of my OpenGL applications gets frozen when starting the update of a texture.
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
The slowdowns are less important with XAA than with EXA but it is still not satisfying. The frame rate is generally 4 times lower than expected.
I have switched to the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro and I have a similar problem. I will try to modify the parameter "MigrationHeuristic" in xorg.conf to fix this bug as explained here: http://www.linuxinsight.com/your-ati-radeon-very-slow-on-xorg-x-server-1.3.html I will probably use the "smart" value instead of "greedy" to avoid some other regressions. The situation is becoming worse, Firefox (10.0.6 and 14.0.1) flickers a lot (but not Chromium). I will try to reproduce this bug with some other Linux distros to see if their defaults X settings are better in my case.
I will make some other tries with my old ATI Radeon 9250 Pro too.
"MigrationHeuristic" doesn't really solve the problem. nomodeset and radeon.modeset=0 drive everything worse. vblank=0 glxgears gives me about 600 FPS whereas I had several thousands FPS under Mandriva. When KMS is enabled, lots of parameters in xorg.conf are ignored and disabling it is not very efficient in my case.
.drirc settings are ignored too.
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Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD