On 02/03/2011 03:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > >> On 02/03/2011 11:22 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series >>> >>> According to the box, it's a Vision Tek Radeon HD3650. >> >> RV635 PRO chipset. PCIE x16 and AGP bus interfaces. How much video RAM? >> 256? 512? 1024? The man page for radeon doesn't explicitly mention > > I think 512 MB, but I'm not sure. > I don't have the box anymore. > Is there a way to ask? No, from some product announcement I saw, 512 sounds about right. It might be available in the Xorg.0.log, but with that much video ram, it shouldn't be important. >> your model number, but it does claim to support your chipset. >> >> Have you read the man page radeon(4)? It lists all the options. >> Perhaps playing with some of them will improve your performance. > > When I get home, I'll check the man pages there. > Googling for radeon man pages, I only found > radeonhd that claimed to support HD3650. radeonhd was a stop-gap driver put out while waiting for radeon to mature. Radeon has since matured, and should support most of what radeonhd set out to do. > The last time I had problems, > 'Twas recommended that I not use radeonhd, > either because it didn't work or because > it had been absorbed into radeon. Most likely the latter, radeon would now be more up-to-date, and use of radeonhd should be deprecated. It still exists in F13, but it is no longer found in F14.... >>>> Let's concentrate on mplayer. Does it work any better if you specify >>>> "-vo xv" or "-vo xvidix"? >>> >>>> From the command line I tried >>> xv: DRI failure, pixelation >> >> That would suggest either a bad video card, or the support for your card >> is not (yet) complete in the radeon driver. Have you tried a more >> recent video driver? > > I don't know how for sure. > If it involves installing an RPM, I'll try to figure out the name tonight. probably xorg-x11-drv-ati >> I haven't asked yet, what version of fedora, and what version of >> xorg_x11_drv_ati? I'm running F14 w/ > > FC 13. > I'll check xorg_x11_drv_ati when I get home. That should have been: xorg-x11-drv-ati My bad. >> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.1-0.3.20100705git37b348059.fc14.x86_64 The version in F13 is: 6.13.0-1, slightly older than the version in F14. And there is a version 6.13.1-0.4.20100705git37b348059.fc14 in updates-testing on F14. >>> gl_nosw: pixelation, but no DRI failure message >>> dga: mess >>> fbdev: cannot open /dev/fb, no video >>> xvidix: pci errors, no video >>> x11: DRI failure, pixelation >> >> Without some sort of hardware support, 3D is going to require a really >> fast CPU. What is the processor in your system? 32 or 64 bit? Any >> idea what the system bus is running at? My laptop has an Intel Core2 >> T7200 @ 2.0GHz. With my video card, HD is iffy at best (playing a local > > 3.2 GHz pentium 4, 32 bits, with 4 GB RAM, 800 MHz FSB. >From what I've seen on the MythTV list, 3.2GHz P4 cpu is about the bottom of the barrel for enough horsepower for HD. Some people claim that a 3.4 I know that my AMD XP 2600+ was just under what I needed to do HD well (with a GeForce 6200 card and XvMC). I'm sure that once we get to the heart of the matter with the video card support, you'll be fine. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
