On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 21:28 -0500, Nathan A. Stine wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 17:26 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 10:25 -0500, Nathan A. Stine wrote: > > > > > > However, the performance is less than acceptable on my Radeon 9600XT > > > with the xorg radeon driver (rather than fglrx). Oh well... > > > > Did you try with EXA rather than the default XAA? > > I had an idea to try XAA and that works very well... > > I was under the impression that EXA was the way to go on R300s and up.
It is in my experience and that of many others... With XAA you're basically disabling 2D acceleration with compiz, also you'll likely run into trouble using XVideo. If EXA doesn't work well, it's most likely due to its offscreen memory area being too small, possibly due to suboptimal configuration. Anyway, if XAA works for you... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org