[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#634036: Bug#634036: [fglrx-driver] with fglrx-driver Xorg eats 15-20% of CPU core

Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 17:06:24 UTC 2011


severity 634036 minor
thanks

ras wrote:

> Package: fglrx-driver
> Version: 1:11-6-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> When fglrx-driver used as a display driver, Xorg process is constantly eating 15-20% of CPU core,
> as shown by top, even while there's no display activity. If xserver-xorg-video-radeon is used instead,
> Xorg uses only 2-5% of a CPU. I tried it with the dist kernel and custom kernels, results are the same.
> I use KDE4 with effects turned off.

i can't reproduce this, but then again i'm using xfce.  can you try
other desktop environments and see if its reproducible or just a kde
issue?

once you have more info, please send a report directly to amd since
this really isn't a packaging issue; thus we can't fix it ourselves:
http://emailcustomercare.amd.com/

thanks,
mike





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