Bugzilla – Bug 616418
Radeon driver bad performance when moving windows or scrolling
Last modified: 2011-08-30 19:32:29 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 SUSE/3.6.3-1.2 Firefox/3.6.3 Hardware: ATI RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] Driver: Radeon In 11.2 it works great with Radeon driver for this hardware while in 11.3 performance is really lousy. When moving windows or scrolling in i.e. Firefox redrawing is really really slow, almost unusable. I've also tried radeonhd which doesn't work at all. I've tried glxgears with a fps of abt 200, which is the same as I have in 11.2. I do not use desktop effects. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh install and the problem is there 2. 3. Actual Results: The problem is obvious immediately when I open any window and try to drag it or scroll. Expected Results: I expect to be able to scroll smoothly in Firefox and move around my windows without slow redrawing. AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57, 3GB RAM
I just wanted to add that the same thing happens to me on a Radeon HD 5670 (evergreen, redwood). I added a more comprehensive description of my problem on the forums at http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/pre-release-beta/441659-radeon-hd-5670-evergreen-redwood-very-slow.html#post2186554 before realizing that someone had already filled a bug report.
I'm also having this problem. I have an ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics card and scrolling is terrible in openSuse.
The same problem happened to me with a Mobility Radeon HD3400 (M82) and radeonhd driver. On opensuse 11.2 everything just worked fine, but with 11.3 every window is extremely slow to move, pop up or even resize. I set the nomode option in the kernel at boot, otherwise X even does not start.
Me too. openSUSE 11.3 Radeon HD 1600. Everything is moving slow but there is no high CPU usage. I changed to Kernel 2.6.35 but it did not helped.
It's kind of a blind shot as I didn't even install openSUSE 11.3 yet, but this reminds me of bug #411587. You may want to try disabling the Composite module and see if it makes any difference.
Yes, that can cause it to be ridiculously slow when acceleration isn't enabled. Another option is that radeonhd isn't claiming your device. I had similar issues with an M56 chip in my T60p. Disabling modeset (radeon.modeset=0) and removing the radeonhd package worked for me. Can you see if that makes an impact?
If you are running gnome, try as-a-workaround disabling "desktop effects" in the "look and feel" menu.
Hi, I have the same issue and simply wanted to share my setup. OpenSUSE 11.3 x86-64 Catalyst 10.9 Kernel 2.6.34.7-0.4 ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core Processor 4GB RAM Firefox is almost unusable Chormium works fine Moving windows is extremely choppy As a side note: glxgears outputs: X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such peration) Major opcode of failed request: 136 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString) Serial number of failed request: 15 Current serial number in output stream: 15
Any updates here?
This has become harder for me to test because this happens on my son's computer and he is usually asleep when I could do the tests. I can confirm that it still happens with the latest updates installed and that it doesn't have "desktop effects" enabled. IIRC it doesn't even allow me to turn it on. Did you look at: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/pre-release-beta/441659-radeon-hd-5670-evergreen-redwood-very-slow.html I posted a lot of information there that I can reproduce here if it's more convenient.
By the way, my setup is a Pentium4 2.8GHz, so it's x86-32, not x86-64.
Paulo, I don't think your problem is the same as what was reported originally by Oscar, Guglielmo and others. They reported a regression, while you presumably did never had a running setup. As a matter of fact, the Radeon HD5000 series (Evergreen) is NOT supported by the radeonhd driver on openSUSE 11.3, so the slow video performance is totally expected. You have to use the binary driver from ATI or build the radeonhd from upstream yourself (which I am doing).
Err, sorry, in the previous comment I really meant the radeon driver, not radeonhd.
Thanks for the info, Jean. Do you happen to know if the radeon driver in OpenSuse 11.4 supports evergreen? If it does, I guess I'll just upgrade. If not, I might try building it all myself. I was really trying to avoid using the binary driver.
Yes, as far as I can see openSUSE 11.4 has at least partial support for Evergreen, although I did not try it myself yet.
Closing due to lack of response. If this is still an issue, please reopen with the requested information.