slow switching to KD_GRAPHICS (KMS?)
Submitted by roy..@..il.com
Assigned to Default DRI bug account
Description
Created attachment 119748
cpu and glxinfo
I have been experiencing this problem since late 2013 when I started using Linux, but I was never able to pinpoint the root cause.
When X starts, it takes a long time (5 - 10 sec) to display the desktop. Switching from X/Wayland to tty and vice versa also takes the same amount of time. After the switch is complete everything works fine.
Now I was programming some animations using the framebuffer device (/dev/fb0) and I was using ioctl(fd, KDSETMODE, KD_GRAPHICS) to enable graphics mode instead of text mode. This also takes 5 - 10 seconds. This might be a good starting point?
KMS is enabled and also reported as such by X on startup. No special configurations are in use, everything is vanilla.
System information:
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470m (512mb)
- Driver version: xf86-video-ati 1:7.5.0-2, but goes back a long time before this version
- Kernel: Linux arch 4.2.5-1-ARCH #1 (closed) SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 27 08:13:28 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
**Attachment 119748**, "cpu and glxinfo":
cpu+glxinfo