On Wednesday 13 May 2009 01:41:21 you wrote: > > > > Wil, > > > > You got me here. What do you mean EXA v. XAA? How do I change to > > test? I have tested both the radeon and radeonh drivers and can't tell > > much of a difference, if any. You also suggest trying the xf86-video-ati. > > Is it supposedly faster than the radeon and radeonhd drivers? I'll poke > > around some more, but if you have a few extra bits of info on it, I'd > > appreciate it. Thanks. > > XAA & EXA are the 2 different acceleration methods for most X drivers. > Intel additionally has UXA, but its based on EXA. I don't know > about the radeonhd driver, but the ati one defaults to XAA even tho > EXA generally provdes better performance these days (the commit has > been made to change the default to EXA in git, its just not released > yet). Just add a line like > > Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" > or > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > > to the Device section in your xorg.conf file to change between them. > /var/log/Xorg.0.log will confirm what is getting used. > > Wil
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