Bad 3D performance with Radeon 7500 in opensuse 11.1

UrbenLegend · 01-12-2009, 04:12 PM

I used to be able to play Wolfenstein Enemy Territory and a lot of other games relatively well on my Radeon 7500 using open source drivers. However, once I switched to opensuse 11.1, everything is laggier. Even the mouse lags in the Wolfenstein menu screen. When I run these games in the console I get a lot of "[driAllocateTexture:636] unable to allocate texture" messages. Is something wrong with my xorg configuration?

Code:

# /.../                                           
# SaX generated X11 config file                   
# Created on: 2009-01-11T20:22:05-0800.           
#                                                 
# Version: 8.1                                    
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005    
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#                                                                             
# Automatically generated by [SaX2] (8.1)                                     
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!                                               
#                                                                             

Section "Files"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"        
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"          
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/URW"            
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"         
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"            
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"       
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"          
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled" 
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"      
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"     
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"                
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"              
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"          
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID"                   
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"     
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"    
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"   
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"  
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled" 
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"          
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"     
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"                 
  FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"                  
  InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"                           
  InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"                        
EndSection                                              

Section "Module"
  Load         "dri"
  Load         "dbe"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "extmod"  
  Load         "glx"     
EndSection               

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
  Option       "ZapWarning" "on"        
EndSection                              

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "kbd" 
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "us"     
  Option       "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"     
EndSection                              

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Buttons" "7"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"              
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"                        
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"                   
EndSection                                            

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "synaptics"
  Identifier   "Mouse[3]" 
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"    
  Option       "HorizScrollDelta" "0"    
  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"    
  Option       "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"  
  Option       "SHMConfig" "on"           
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"            
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"       
EndSection                                


Section "Monitor"
  DisplaySize  304 228
  HorizSync    30-50  
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "LCD MONITOR"
  Option       "DPMS"       
  Option       "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
  VendorName   "LGP"                     
  VertRefresh  43-60                     
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"                
EndSection                               


Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
  Modeline      "1024x768" 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795
  Modeline      "1024x768" 55.00 1024 1072 1104 1184 768 771 775 790 +HSync -Vsync
EndSection                                                                        


Section "Device"
  BoardName    "Radeon LW"
  Driver       "radeon"   
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option       "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
  Option       "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor[0]"   
  VendorName   "ATI"                         
EndSection                                   


Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15     
    Modes      "1024x768" 
    Virtual    1024 768   
  EndSubSection           
  SubSection "Display"    
    Depth      16         
    Modes      "1024x768" 
    Virtual    1024 768   
  EndSubSection           
  SubSection "Display"    
    Depth      24         
    Modes      "1024x768" 
    Virtual    1024 768   
  EndSubSection           
  SubSection "Display"    
    Depth      8          
    Modes      "1024x768" 
    Virtual    1024 768   
  EndSubSection           
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection


Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Cottsay · 01-14-2009, 11:34 PM

Can you use the ATI proprietary driver?

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

--scott

UrbenLegend · 01-15-2009, 03:57 PM

Radeon 7500 is a legacy card and is no longer supported by ATI, so I can't use the proprietary drivers. The open-source drivers should support it quite well, but I think the particular version of the "radeon" driver provided by opensuse 11.1 is not that great. Any other ideas?

Cottsay · 01-15-2009, 03:58 PM

Can you update it to a newer version?

--scott

UrbenLegend · 01-16-2009, 01:16 AM

Well that's the problem, I don't really know where to begin to upgrade to a new version of the driver. I don't know what X11 packages I have to install or even where they're located.

Cottsay · 01-16-2009, 10:05 AM

Hmm...I'm not sure how openSUSE works, but fedora has a package for the radeon driver. Either way, even if it is updated, it may not guarantee to fix your problem. There must be a way to update your DRI or something. Does openSUSE use yum or apt? If so, are your packages up to date?

--scott

UrbenLegend · 01-16-2009, 01:03 PM

It uses RPM's, not sure about yum. openSUSE has its libzypp based package management system. They are all up to date, but without a valid opensuse X11 repository with new builds, I can't confirm that they are the latest drivers. I can't seem to find a repository that provides new X11 versions though.