From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Christoph Brill <egore911@gmail.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Using a HD 4670 still possible?
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:41:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540D095F.2000509@daenzer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEG350S9_rw1OySuj=7KNTu+AKUSXbbC+yGNvibpOijDQU39HA@mail.gmail.com>
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.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-06 16:01 Using a HD 4670 still possible? Christoph Brill
2014-09-08 1:41 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2014-09-13 18:13 ` Christoph Brill
2014-09-17 7:30 ` Michel Dänzer
2014-09-17 12:55 ` Alex Deucher
2014-09-17 20:27 ` Christoph Brill
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