Re: Disabling EXA

2011-11-28 Thread Alex Deucher
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Christoph Bartoschek
bartosc...@or.uni-bonn.de wrote:
 Hi,

 how can I disable EXA and use XAA? I am on opensuse and added the following
 section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf:

 Section Device
  Option AccelMethod xaa
  Identifier Default Device
 EndSection

 Xorg reads the file because it says in its logfile:

 [    21.481] (==) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
 [    21.481] (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp
 pixmaps)
 [    21.481] (==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
 [    21.481] (**) RADEON(0): Option AccelMethod xaa
 [    21.481] (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
 [    21.481] (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
 [    21.481] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M22) 5460
 (PCIE) (ChipID = 0x5460)
 [    21.481] (II) RADEON(0): PCIE card detected

 But EXA is still used:

 [    21.481] (II) Loading sub module exa
 [    21.481] (II) LoadModule: exa
 [    21.482] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so
 [    21.488] (II) Module exa: vendor=X.Org Foundation
 [    21.488]    compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 2.5.0
 ...
 [    21.575] (II) RADEON(0): EXA: Driver will allow EXA pixmaps in VRAM
 ...
 [    21.635] (II) RADEON(0): Setting EXA maxPitchBytes
 [    21.635] (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps
 [    21.635] (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following
 operations:
 [    21.635] (II)         Solid
 [    21.635] (II)         Copy
 [    21.635] (II)         Composite (RENDER acceleration)
 [    21.635] (II)         UploadToScreen
 [    21.635] (II)         DownloadFromScreen


 How can I disable EXA and use XAA?. I suspect EXA to be responsible for a
 huge performance regression.

XAA is not compatible with KMS.

Alex
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Disabling EXA

2011-11-26 Thread Christoph Bartoschek

Hi,

how can I disable EXA and use XAA? I am on opensuse and added the 
following section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf:


Section Device
  Option AccelMethod xaa
  Identifier Default Device
EndSection

Xorg reads the file because it says in its logfile:

[21.481] (==) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[21.481] (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 
bpp pixmaps)

[21.481] (==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[21.481] (**) RADEON(0): Option AccelMethod xaa
[21.481] (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
[21.481] (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
[21.481] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M22) 
5460 (PCIE) (ChipID = 0x5460)

[21.481] (II) RADEON(0): PCIE card detected

But EXA is still used:

[21.481] (II) Loading sub module exa
[21.481] (II) LoadModule: exa
[21.482] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so
[21.488] (II) Module exa: vendor=X.Org Foundation
[21.488]compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 2.5.0
...
[21.575] (II) RADEON(0): EXA: Driver will allow EXA pixmaps in VRAM
...
[21.635] (II) RADEON(0): Setting EXA maxPitchBytes
[21.635] (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps
[21.635] (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following 
operations:

[21.635] (II) Solid
[21.635] (II) Copy
[21.635] (II) Composite (RENDER acceleration)
[21.635] (II) UploadToScreen
[21.635] (II) DownloadFromScreen


How can I disable EXA and use XAA?. I suspect EXA to be responsible for 
a huge performance regression.


Thanks
Christoph
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