[compiz] radeon or radeonhd or xf86-video-ati ( was Re: Will radeon or radeonhd work with compiz?)

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Saturday 09 May 2009 10:49:50 you wrote:
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 Cool.  I suspect this is the just the compiz default, why I have no idea.

 The fglrx driver is typically faster than either open source drivers
 in 3D, but I'll take the performance hit over a binary blob any day.
 I noticed in your logs you are using XAA, you can see if switching to
 EXA makes any of the issues go away.  Alternately, theres the
 xf86-video-ati driver you can try as well.  It shares a lot of code
 with radeonhd but sometimes it works better.

 Wil

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.



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Re: [compiz] radeon or radeonhd or xf86-video-ati ( was Re: Will radeon or radeonhd work with compiz?)

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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

Got it! 

Thanks. I'll give it a go and report back.

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