Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm - solved

2010-11-21 Thread bendeguz
>Hi all! > >So, the video card in an old radeon 7500, >not mobility. >I have been experiencing a problem for a very >long time, if not from the beggining of my >linux desktop carreer: > >Here is an example: I have midori oen with >a web page, with graphics, pictures, etc. >if I open preferences w

Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-10-18 Thread bendeguz
> > > Actually, KMS also gives EXA some extra acceleration options when used with > hw acceleration. You might want to try to get it and see if it helps. Are > you aware of any reason it might not be enabled? If not, attach a dmesg log, > a xorg.log and a "GL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo" and I could ta

Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-10-07 Thread Michael de Lang
On 7 October 2010 00:02, bendeguz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:42:04AM +0200, Michael de Lang wrote: > > Is this only a problem for fglrx? Or is this XAA related? And Bendeguz, > are > > you using the open source drivers? Because I believe that EXA in the > radeon > > 6.13.x drivers shou

Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-10-06 Thread bendeguz
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:42:04AM +0200, Michael de Lang wrote: > Is this only a problem for fglrx? Or is this XAA related? And Bendeguz, are > you using the open source drivers? Because I believe that EXA in the radeon > 6.13.x drivers should have plenty of AGP related speed fixes(might need xor

Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-10-06 Thread Michael de Lang
Is this only a problem for fglrx? Or is this XAA related? And Bendeguz, are you using the open source drivers? Because I believe that EXA in the radeon 6.13.x drivers should have plenty of AGP related speed fixes(might need xorg 1.8 and a kernel version of 2.6.33 or higher though). In fact, Bendeg

Xorg future (Was: Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm)

2010-09-25 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/23/2010 06:33 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > With my essentially-LFS-6.7 desktop I'm noticing that if I have > firefox open on one desktop, and something else in the same area on > another, when I go back to firefox it takes a noticeable time to > repaint itself, even if the processor was idle. T

Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-09-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 06:48:46PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14:43AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > > > > Guys, Thomas Trepl posted a patch to BLFS-Dev on 2010-08-19. I believe > > this patch will fix the slow resize issue, however, there are some > > issues. It will not go

Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-09-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14:43AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > > Guys, Thomas Trepl posted a patch to BLFS-Dev on 2010-08-19. I believe > this patch will fix the slow resize issue, however, there are some > issues. It will not go into the book as is, but I would like to see at > least a mention and

Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-09-12 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/10/2010 03:27 PM, bendeguz wrote: > Hi all! > > So, the video card in an old radeon 7500, > not mobility. > I have been experiencing a problem for a very > long time, if not from the beggining of my > linux desktop carreer: > > Here is an example: I have midori oen with > a web page, with

Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-09-11 Thread bendeguz
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:07:26PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > All the time. I don't use midori much, but I use epiphany a lot, > and it's always unresponsive when loading big or complex pages. I > blame webkit (particularly for the lack of any indication that > anything is happening). More gene

Re: old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-09-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:27:29PM +0200, bendeguz wrote: > Hi all! > > So, the video card in an old radeon 7500, > not mobility. > I have been experiencing a problem for a very > long time, if not from the beggining of my > linux desktop carreer: > > Here is an example: I have midori oen with

old radeon 7500 card, slow wm

2010-09-10 Thread bendeguz
Hi all! So, the video card in an old radeon 7500, not mobility. I have been experiencing a problem for a very long time, if not from the beggining of my linux desktop carreer: Here is an example: I have midori oen with a web page, with graphics, pictures, etc. if I open preferences window the c