[SOLUTION] Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-20 Thread Cassiano Leal
On 19 March 2010 00:19, Cassiano Leal wrote: > On 17 March 2010 15:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Wed,17.Mar.10, 11:27:19, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: >>> Hi Andrei, >>> >>> OK, doing >>> >>> modprobe -r radeon >>> modprobe radeon modeset=1 >>> >>> using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-18 Thread Cassiano Leal
On 17 March 2010 15:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,17.Mar.10, 11:27:19, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: >> Hi Andrei, >> >> OK, doing >> >> modprobe -r radeon >> modprobe radeon modeset=1 >> >> using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine which actually >> performance workplace and application s

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 11:27:19, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > OK, doing > > modprobe -r radeon > modprobe radeon modeset=1 > > using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine which actually > performance workplace and application switching at acceptable speed. Are you sure the mod

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Thanks for the response. On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:04 -0300, Cassiano Leal wrote: > > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version > > mismatch. > > [dri] radeon kernel module version is 2.0.0 but version 1.17.0 or newer is > > needed. > > [dri] Disabling DRI. > >

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Cassiano Leal
Hi On 17 March 2010 07:27, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > OK, doing > > modprobe -r radeon > modprobe radeon modeset=1 > > using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine which actually > performance workplace and application switching at acceptable speed. > > Now I just have 1 error

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi Andrei, OK, doing modprobe -r radeon modprobe radeon modeset=1 using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine which actually performance workplace and application switching at acceptable speed. Now I just have 1 error left in my XOrg.log: (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion fail

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:34 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,17.Mar.10, 09:53:07, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > Hi Andrei, > > > > Nop, not even a failure. > > > > > > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog > > > > panoramix:/home/jk

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 09:53:07, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > Nop, not even a failure. > > > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog > > panoramix:/home/jkr# grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog > Mar 17 08:18:28 panoramix kernel: [ 12

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi Andrei, Nop, not even a failure. On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog panoramix:/home/jkr# grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog Mar 17 08:18:28 panoramix kernel: [ 12.304016] 3w-9xxx: scsi4: Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.006, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.05

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 09:11:31, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > 1. In several postings I saw the mentioning of the need to load > firmware. I have installed all the firmware-linux packages, including > the non-free which contains the relevant Radeon firmware. I see some > firmware getting loaded (eg for m

Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I am struggling with my Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP ever since I have upgraded to XOrg 7.5 which is (still) not supported by the proprietary driver. The OSS Radeon driver is *really* slow. Switching between workplaces or (full screen) applications sometimes take more than 30 seconds. More appli