Hi everybody.
I've been using Peppermint 7 since it was launched and I feel so comfortable using it. Because I love Plasma, I early installed it using synaptic, the repos incluided in Peppermint. And it looks ok.
I use composite to give some effects to my desktops.
My hardware:
Sony Vaio Laptop
E2 Processor (Dual Core)
6 GB Ram
VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320]
Running Peppermint 7 64 bits
From some time to now, I noticed the system goes slowly when effects run. It happend after some kernel updates. Then I tried to update to official AMD drivers and it was the worst I could do. FPS in my desktop falls down to 5 or 4 when composite starts. It happens when I load the following last installed kernels (via system update):
4.15.0-36
4.15.0-38
4.4.0-138
I kept some of my old kernels installed and when I loaded the old one, it works perfect!!! That kernel is version
4.4.0-92I did some investigation and found that are diferences in the modules loaded in the old kernel and the last ones. When I use GLXINFO to test my OpenGl parameters, I obtain the following....
In Kernel 4.4.0-92 (the one that runs perfect):server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
[...]
Device: AMD PALM (DRM 2.43.0 / 4.4.0-92-generic, LLVM 6.0.0) (0x9806)
In updated kernels (graphics and performance working bad):server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
I think there is a problem, in the new kernels it loads VMware resources and no AMD.
But I don't know how to follow.... Is it possible to configure the updated kernels to load the ATI drivers correctly?
I hope to give the correct information.
Thanks in advance!!
