Problem: xorg 1.7.7 on Mandriva 2010.2 / ATI X600: X11 crashing or slowing down
I am having annoying problems with my fresh installation of Mandriva 2010.2.
It uses the xorg-1.7.7 server for my ATI X600 mobility graphics card. (package: x11-server-xorg-1.7.7-1mdv2010.1) There are several - perhaps related, perhaps unrelated - problems: Problem 1: Random lockups. The Xorg.0.log states: Code:
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop. X11 becomes slower and slower when running applications like mplayer, xine or glxgears When started on a freshly started X11-Server glxgears for the first 30 seconds reports about 1900 FPS (more or less). After 30 or 40 seconds these values start to drop. After about 1 minute the reported frames per second drop dramatically to about 100 fps or less. The x-server is generally unusable then, if I (try to) switch the workspace in XFCE it appears as if the server has swapped all its windows to the harddisk. 'free' doesn't report any used swap of course, and the system has a few hundreds of megabytes still unsused memory. The cpu usage of X11 has gone up then, but is not consuming more than 20% of cpu. Same happens while playing any kind of video with any kind of sound driver in either mplayer or xine. At first the video plays without problems, but after about 40 seconds or 1 minute frames are dropped, and although there is still unsused cpu reported by 'top' the system cannot play the video anymore. If I stop playing the video and restart it, but this time forwarding the position where it last time had the problems the video plays fine, but after 40 seconds or 1 minute it's the same problem again. The lockups have not appear again, since I have disabled 'composite', but this may just have been a coincidence. I played a lot with the configuration, but the second problem is completely unaltered by any change I've made. My xorg.conf: =============== Code:
# File generated by XFdrake (rev ) Do you need more information? I guess I am experiencing a software bug? |
Bug or no bug ... I honestly wouldn't know. But the current version of xorg is 1.9. Even old SuSE 11.3 has 1.8 -- so I'd suggest you update xorg.
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Hello JZL240I-U,
Thank you for your suggestions. At the moment I don't have a repository available with newer versions of the xorg-server. I have updated the device driver, which was version 6.13.0 (package x11-driver-video-ati-6.13.0-3mdv2010.1) to the newest version 6.13.2, which didn't help. Also I updated to a newer kernel 2.6.36.4 (it was 2.6.33.7 before). This didn't change the problem at all. It's definitively only the slowing down which haunts me. The lockups are gone since I disabled Composite. I have now details for the problem with a video player like 'mplayer'. It starts with running smoothly using about 10% of the cpu. After about 40 seconds the cpu usage goes up. First very slowly to about 20%, then suddenly to 100% and the video drops frames and the sound stutters. |
But this still sounds like an x-problem. So it wouldn't really help to update your kernel, but ... you just might try the proprietary driver from http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx. Maybe this can also be found in your Mandriva repositories. But I can't believe that there is no newer xorg, yours is several years old...
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was a good guess to try a newer kernel. Quote:
This driver has always worked perfectly. but I wanted to use modern OS features so I had to update to a newer Mandriva ... I could switch back to Mandriva 2009.0. The kernel and xorg-System were old enough to have a working older propietary driver, but ...... Quote:
EDIT: Found out it was released in early May 2010. So it's actually less than a year old, like the Mandriva 2010.2 I am using. So with Mandriva 2011 (available now as a BETA) there will be a newer version of xorg. I might try updating to this release, although it's considered BETA. I cannot view even the smallest videos anymore, really getting on my nerves. Thank you for your suggestions. I keep this thread open until I finally find out what caused this .... |
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I have installed a new linux version. I test Mageiea 1 at the moment, since the 2011.0 version of Mandriva is a bit late ... I run now xorg 1.10: x11-server-xorg-1.10.1-1.mga1 The version of the ATI driver is 6.14.1 (x11-driver-video-ati-6.14.1-4.mga1) The problem is completely unchanged though. Still after a short time every video I try to view starts dropping frames and ends in X11 being completely unusable for the next few minutes ..... |
Didn't re-read the whole thread, but did you try out the "radeon" driver at all?
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AFAIK the ATI and the radeon driver are the same thing.
I still use the radeon driver, which is part of ATI driver package. It doesn't matter whether I call the driver "ati" or "radeon", doesn't change antyhing. Code:
[grover@ischnura ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so |
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