On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 01:29, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On 20 Nov 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> >It's a little suprising to me that removing some (fairly unimportant)
> >accelerations makes 2D "painfully slow"; except for a few things
> >like blits and solid area fills, acceleration just doesn't matter
> >much any more. What applications were you testing with?
> 
> konsole, mozilla, any other application that is maximized. You 
> name it.  I can watch it draw the whole screen and count out 
> loud.
> 
> In 1600x1200x24 It takes 1 full second to draw the screen, or a 
> good 3/4 of a second.  That is definitely not accelerated.  
> Again, disabling DRI, the MMIO accel makes everything fly.

Color expansion is probably what's missing.

That's also an issue with r128 right now; unfortunately, the trivial
approach to converting MMIO to CCE acceleration doesn't work there. Any
help would be appreciated.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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