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A bit out of date

Posted Nov 2, 2012 18:47 UTC (Fri) by luto (subscriber, #39314)
In reply to: A bit out of date by niner
Parent article: Seeking Enlightenment (The H)

Am I the only one with serious radeon compositing issues? I have:

08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc NI Caicos [AMD RADEON HD 6450]

gnome-shell is painfully slow. Cinnamon draws its desktop overview at about one frame every three seconds.

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A bit out of date

Posted Nov 2, 2012 21:50 UTC (Fri) by colo (subscriber, #45564) [Link]

Are you sure you have the radeon firmware blobs installed and properly loaded by the DRM module? Without them, you won't get properly hw-accelerated OpenGL on many of AMDs more recent GPUs.

A bit out of date

Posted Nov 2, 2012 23:04 UTC (Fri) by luto (subscriber, #39314) [Link]

Updating drivers to git from today fixed it. Tiling makes a big difference on low-end (and thus low memory bandwidth) radeons, apparently.