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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

material accelaraion disappeared

Bug #883421 reported by Eric on 2011-10-29

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

After upgrading my Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.10 3.0.0-12, material acceleration of my Radeon 7500 disappeared. I reinstalled the Xorg driver with no success.

Thanks !

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-genusername 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Sat Oct 29 11:34:01 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-10-26 14:23:41.461443
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: fglrx, 8.881, 3.0.0-12-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T42 2373-4WU [1014:0530]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
MachineType: IBM 18316FG
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-genusername root=UUID=2cf3106a-9632-451b-bf11-09035b6e8c1a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: xorg
UnitySupportTest:
Error: command ['/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test', '-p', '-f'] failed with exit code 1: X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
   Major opcode of failed request: 136 (GLX)
   Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
   Serial number of failed request: 21
   Current serial number in output stream: 21
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-26 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1RETC6WW (3.05a)
dmi.board.name: 18316FG
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1RETC6WW(3.05a):bd05/14/2004:svnIBM:pn18316FG:pvrThinkPadR50:rvnIBM:rn18316FG:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 18316FG
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad R50
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu5
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

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Eric (rico58) wrote on 2011-10-29:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (50.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootLog.gz Edit (417 bytes, application/x-gzip)
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (1.3 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (36.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (10.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (383 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (524 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (97.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (223.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (45.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (46.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
peripherals.txt Edit (663 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xinput.txt Edit (913 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

bugbot (bugbot) on 2011-10-29

affects:

xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote on 2012-01-28:

Please install the mesa-utils package and then run glxinfo | grep render
Attach the output to this bug report.

description:

updated

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Mantas Zimnickas (sirex) wrote on 2012-02-27:

What "material acceleration" does mean?

After upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10, all graphics became very slow. When switching windows with Alt+Tab I even can see how windows are redrawing. I have same graphics card as in bug description:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]

Here is "glxinfo | grep render" output:

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R100 (RV200 4C57) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote on 2012-06-10:

One thing that might improve the performance of the open-source radeon drivers slightly is this patch which was in the upstream 3.0.18 kernel:

commit a674b8b3e345496a96aec389446650455b2fdfa1
Author: Alex Deucher
Date: Tue Jan 3 09:48:38 2012 -0500

drm/radeon/kms: disable writeback on pre-R300 asics

commit 28eebb703e28bc455ba704adb1026f76649b768c upstream.

    We often end up missing fences on older asics with
    writeback enabled which leads to delays in the userspace
    accel code, so just disable it by default on those asics.

    Reported-by: Helge Deller
    Reported-by: Dave Airlie
    Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher
    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Ubuntu kernels 3.0.0-16.29 and later are based on this upstream kernel version.

If the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" pulls in version 6.14.4 of the open-source radeon driver, released on 28 March 2012 (or the just-released 6.14.5 version), you might get a small performance improvement on your old Radeon Mobility 7500 due to the implementation of KMS tiling. KMS tiling was already supported on newer Radeon hardware.

You can monitor the driver git snapshot dates at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote on 2012-06-23:

Marking Invalid because you've installed fglrx/Catalyst driver which does not support your video card. Please use the open-source ati/radeon driver that is installed by default.

To remove fglrx/Catalyst:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx xserver-xorg-core
sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
sudo rm -rf /etc/ati

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2012-06-23

tags:

removed: regression-update

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