From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?windows-1252?Q?Michel_D=E4nzer?= Subject: Re: Using a HD 4670 still possible? Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:41:51 +0900 Message-ID: <540D095F.2000509@daenzer.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mail.gna.ch (darkcity.gna.ch [195.226.6.51]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C4F89CF5 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2014 18:41:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" To: Christoph Brill Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org 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=3D0". > > 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. -- = Earthling Michel D=E4nzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer