ATI-tuning

theonebeyond · 10-07-2004, 01:06 AM

Hi there!

I found a lot of threads about problems or how to install ATI drivers.

My experiences are quite good; drivers were working on 2nd try. To be honest... try nr. 1 was without reading much :-) So I guess I am on the lucky side of ATI-users ...

I have the ATI Radeon 9000 mobility. And it's onboard in my laptop (Amiloa A). Ok, that's all I know about the card. And I don't know very mcuh about 3d-cards in general.

While intsalling and reading about it I always came across some hints about tuning ATI ... but never more than: "use this to fine tune your settings" or smiliar. .. bah ... how could that help me?

Can someone give me some hints on what is always a good idea in tuning the settings ... or where I can get real information and explanations to that ... more than just trying to find something that might help from www.ati.com.

Thanks a lot,
Sascha

mandrakedood · 10-07-2004, 05:05 AM

the only ones i can suggest are these. you may or may not have these already. i tried running a search for xf86config radeon tweaks and xfree86 radeon tweaks but i can't find the site i ran across several months back that explained alot of the options for radeons and xf86. honestly tho, there wasn't a whole lot that i could do that i hadn't already done to my XF86Config file.

Code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    BoardName "ATI Radeon"
    Driver "fglrx"
    Option "DPMS"
    Option "AGPMode" "4"
# ### generic DRI settings ###
# === disable PnP Monitor  ===
    #Option                              "NoDDC"
# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
    Option "no_accel"                   "no"
    Option "no_dri"                     "no"
# === misc DRI settings ===
    Option "mtrr"                       "off" # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr
# ### FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ###
# === Screen Management ===
    Option "DesktopSetup"               "0x00000000" 
    Option "MonitorLayout"              "AUTO, AUTO"
    Option "IgnoreEDID"                 "off"
    Option "HSync2"                     "unspecified" 
    Option "VRefresh2"                  "unspecified" 
    Option "ScreenOverlap"              "0" 
# === TV-out Management ===
    Option "NoTV"                       "yes"     
    Option "TVStandard"                 "NTSC-M"     
    Option "TVHSizeAdj"                 "0"     
    Option "TVVSizeAdj"                 "0"     
    Option "TVHPosAdj"                  "0"     
    Option "TVVPosAdj"                  "0"     
    Option "TVHStartAdj"                "0"     
    Option "TVColorAdj"                 "0"     
    Option "GammaCorrectionI"           "0x00000000"
    Option "GammaCorrectionII"          "0x00000000"
# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===
    Option "Capabilities"               "0x00000000"
# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
    Option "VideoOverlay"               "on"
# === OpenGL Overlay ===
# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
#       will be disabled automatically
    Option "OpenGLOverlay"              "off"
# === Center Mode (Laptops only) ===
    Option "CenterMode"                 "off"
# === Pseudo Color Visuals (8-bit visuals) ===
    Option "PseudoColorVisuals"         "off"
# === QBS Management ===
    Option "Stereo"                     "off"
    Option "StereoSyncEnable"           "1"
# === FSAA Management ===
    Option "FSAAEnable"                 "no"
    Option "FSAAScale"                  "1"
    Option "FSAADisableGamma"           "no"
    Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos"         "no"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX0"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY0"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX1"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY1"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX2"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY2"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX3"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY3"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX4"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY4"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX5"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY5"                "0.000000"
# === Misc Options ===
    Option "UseFastTLS"                 "0"
    Option "BlockSignalsOnLock"         "on"
    Option "UseInternalAGPGART"         "no"
    Option "ForceGenericCPU"            "no"

theonebeyond · 10-07-2004, 05:13 AM

Thanks so far... I'll compare that to mine .. although I use xorg ... I think it should work.
Will be reporting.

Anyone else? :-)

mandrakedood · 10-07-2004, 05:18 AM

xorg is basically a fork of xfree86. it was started because of xfree86's licensing change(non-GPL or something). so Xorg forked off and continued a GPL version of xwindows.

i believe those options should work tho. however, for all i know they may not cause i haven't taken the time to tinker w/ xorg. lemme know how it works out for ya.