[SOLVED]Desktop Effects Error- Too Slow?

[CaptainSarcastic]

What is the processor in that machine and how much memory does it have?

I see a lot of discussion about the 9100 IGP but it strikes me that the horsepower of the machine in general is an issue.

If you open the PCC and go to the hardware section you can browse the hardware on your machine and determine your processor and memory amount.  I'm guessing you have a CPU clocked around or below 2ghz and less than 1GB of memory.

I would suggest going into PCC, then Hardware, then Configure Desktop Effects.  Turn off 3D desktop effects there and see how your performance does.  Things won't look as pretty, but will require fewer resources to run.

[CheeseQueen452]

Just got some updates including Nvidia & plasma, then rebooted, & it appears to be working!! I even have the Yoono addon for Firefox running(which previously caused the desktop effects to be suspended), & so far so good If it happens again, I'll be sure to post it here. Thanx to all for your help!!

[CheeseQueen452]

Spoke too soon.... I restarted Firefox(after a previously successful start), & it happened again. Back at square 1....

[T6]

that card can do 3d!

of course it can, if a old ati radeon 7000 can this can too, the problem here is that the driver doesn't like the video card, integrated cards are a pita

there is some settings on the bios of the mainboard, the amount of ram might be changed to share from 32/64 to 128

thanks for the tips!

i tried your extra options but no change, glxgears stays in 740 fps, practically if not the same as before, as always

[CheeseQueen452]

Ok, I finally had the chance to do this procedure, & it appears to be working!! Thankyou SOOOO much!!

Now, to solve my other issue.... My cpu usage appears to be VERY high. Unless I'm reading the numbers wrong, it's averaging 90% or more! Typing "top" in Konsole says  "90.0%id". How can I improve this?

CheeseQueen452,

Now we know what your card is ( and it seems to be a APGx4 capable device), we can take steps to tery and improves its performance.

The first step is ot use PCC > Hardware> Set up the graphical server and ensure that ATI Radeo X1950 and earlier is selected at the correct desired resolution and depth fo your display, then apply these and restart X (log out then log back in)

You then need to use Dolphin (or chosen file manager) and navigate to /etc/X11/ and right click on xorg.conf and select root action > edit as root.

Then in the device subsection for the card that reads Driver ati you need to add the following options copy and paste this block  to start from directly under Option DPMS (please include the #out lines as they will assist in identifying what has been added at a later date - if required)

#options added in attempt to improve performance
Option "AccelMethod" "exa" #(can help with composite - comment out if want to use xaa)
Option "AccelDFS" "true" 
Option "BusType" "AGP"     #(use only if internalAGP based card)
Option "AGPMode" "4"   #(can use 8 if card is capable check out result of dmesg |grep agp)
Option "EnableDepthMoves" "on"
Option "FBTexPercent" "80"
Option "BackingStore" "true"
Option "EXAOptimizeMigration" "true"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "DRI" "on"
Option "ScalerWidth" "2048"   #Remove/comment out this if screen has pink / discoloured arears)
Option "ColorTiling" "on"
Option "DynamicClocks" "off"
Option "ExaNoComposite" "false"
#options added end

After you have added this information to xorg.conf safe the file and restart X (logi in and then log out )

If you could then generate a copy of the logs by using   cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log >/home/username/Documents/XorgLogOutput.txt  to generate a txt file for us to view for any errors or other inprvements

You can check for improvement by trying a glxgears both before adding and after adding the extra lines (try both with and without compositing )

Please note that these are ATI specific options - and may not work with other cards.

Post back after

BTW T6 - this will work for that 9200 card as well.

Jase

[Old-Polack]

CheeseQueen452:

What part of idle don't you understand?

Idle = % not in use.

[ruel24]

Ok, I finally had the chance to do this procedure, & it appears to be working!! Thankyou SOOOO much!!

Now, to solve my other issue.... My cpu usage appears to be VERY high. Unless I'm reading the numbers wrong, it's averaging 90% or more! Typing "top" in Konsole says  "90.0%id". How can I improve this?

How much physical RAM do you have? A busy computer often means it's paging quite a bit, and causing serious slow downs.

[CheeseQueen452]

So, "id" means idle? I guess that's a good thing I never said I was an expert at these things....

CheeseQueen452:

What part of idle don't you understand?

Idle = % not in use.

[CheeseQueen452]

I have 1GB of RAM. It turns out I was reading the cpu numbers wrong You're right that I'd see serious slow downs if that were the case....

Thanx to everyone for all your help!!

How much physical RAM do you have? A busy computer often means it's paging quite a bit, and causing serious slow downs.