Graphics performance very bad with Radeon HD 5770 and Dual-Monitor setup
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After a new installation on my old hardware, I noticed considerably worse performance, although the hardware was not altered. Overall operation seems fine. But if I start a youtube video and put it in full screen, I get horrible performance -- even several seconds of freeze.
Also, running e.g. wesnoth is quite slow. I used to be able to run wesnoth on the big monitor while running a video on the second monitor simultaneously with no problem at all.
My Graphics Card:
$ sudo lspci|grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770]
My Screen Resolution(s): (output cropped a bit by some lower resolutions)
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
DFP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DFP2 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 521mm x 293mm
1920x1080 60.0*+ 50.0 59.9 60.1 50.0 60.0
1600x1200 60.0
[...]
DFP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DFP4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
CRT1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
CRT2 connected 1280x1024+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm
1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0
1280x960 60.0
[...]
My Kernel and ATI drivers:
sys-kernel/linux-sabayon-3.12.14
x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.12#3.12.0-sabayon
Direct rendering is enabled:
$ glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes
When measuring performance with glxgears:
$ glxgears
15868 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3173.469 FPS
This is my xorg.conf, presumable generated by amdcccle (which I used for configuration)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Main Layout"
Screen 0 "amdcccle-Screen-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "i2c"
Load "ddc"
Load "vbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 28.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP2"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-CRT2"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "1920 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
#BusID "PCI:01:00"
#Option "RenderAccel" "on"
#Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
#Option "BusType" "PCI"
#Option "ColorTiling" "on"
#Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
# UseEvents is causing segmentation faults with
# NVIDIA 6xxx, 7xxx and >=275.xx.xx drivers
#Option "UseEvents" "True"
Identifier "SabayonVga0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "LogoPath" "/usr/share/backgrounds/sabayonlinux-nvidia.png"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "amdcccle-Device-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP2" "0-DFP2"
Option "Monitor-CRT2" "0-CRT2"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
#Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
#Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"
Identifier "Screen 0"
Device "SabayonVga0"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
#Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "amdcccle-Screen-0"
Device "amdcccle-Device-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Asked by Archibald
(81 rep)
Apr 13, 2014, 08:23 AM
Last activity: Dec 17, 2017, 02:28 PM
Last activity: Dec 17, 2017, 02:28 PM