I am seeing serious issues with constant CPU usage after upgrading to 11.1 and installing the ATI proprietary drivers.
My system is and IBM lenovo T60 with the ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 video chipset.
Xorg is eating well over 95% of the CPU at all times. I am using a very default, unmodified SaX2 configuration for X.
I would be fine with not using the fglrx driver at all, as I think it is probably the source of the problem, but I don’t seem to be able to run video with any other driver.
Trying:
sax2 -m 0=fbdev
Simply gets me a blank, grey screen. It won’t work with the default xorg.conf that was working on initial installation either.
I am running the following kernel:
2.6.27.21-0-pae
Does anyone know what’s going on here? It’s difficult to keep trying different configurations, since every time I try to run SaX with some other driver, I end up with a grey screen of death and have to reboot.
Thanks for any ideas.
Leah
Other info :
xorg.conf
# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2009-03-26T17:06:29-0400.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "IgnoreABI" "on"
Option "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[3]"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option "Name" "IBM;TPPS/2 TrackPoint"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
DisplaySize 287 215
HorizSync 30-68
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "LENOVO LCD MONITOR"
Option "DPMS"
Option "PreferredMode" "1400x1050"
VendorName "LEN"
VertRefresh 43-60
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1360x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection
Section "Device"
BoardName "ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 (M52 7149)"
Driver "fglrx"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Option "SaXDualHead"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "SaXDualOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "SaXDualMode" "Xinerama"
Option "ForceMonitors" "auto,crt1"
Option "SaXDualHSync" "31-50"
Option "SaXDualMonitorModel" "1024X768@60HZ"
Option "SaXDualVSync" "50-60"
Option "VRefresh2" "50-60"
Option "Mode2" "1280x1024,1280x960,1280x800,1152x864,1280x768,1280x720,1024x768,1280x600,1024x600,800x600,768x576,640x480"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "FSAAScale" "0"
Option "FSAAEnable" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "SaXDualMonitorVendor" "--> VESA"
Option "HSync2" "31-50"
Option "SaXDualResolution" "1280x1024"
Option "DesktopSetup" "Horizontal,Reverse"
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "on"
EndSection