Re: ATTENTION: anyone using the the X driver for any ati card

2008-07-07 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Ian Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, building a kernel with DRM and removing option MigrationHeuristic > gives some impressive results: > compared to ? - benont

Re: ATTENTION: anyone using the the X driver for any ati card

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Lindsay
Well, building a kernel with DRM and removing option MigrationHeuristic gives some impressive results: GtkEntry - time: 0.26 GtkComboBox - time: 6.69 GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 5.76 GtkSpinButton - time: 0.91 GtkProgressBar - time: 0.38 GtkToggleButton - time: 2.17 GtkCheckButton - time: 1.43

Re: ATTENTION: anyone using the the X driver for any ati card

2008-07-04 Thread Ian Lindsay
vga1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 "ATI Radeon X1250" rev 0x00 The default AccelMethod is apparently still XAA (even though it says it's "unsupported" and to "please use EXA instead"). Since this is an IGP, the optimal MigrationHeuristic is probably "never", but "greedy" seems to be the best approxima

Re: ATTENTION: anyone using the the X driver for any ati card

2008-07-03 Thread Todd T. Fries
The mirrors are taking a bit to get caught up. You want to look for snaps dated June 2, 17:00 or later .. another way to verify the newer ati driver is included is if mach64_drv.so is in xbase44.tgz. Thanks, -- Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ |

ATTENTION: anyone using the the X driver for any ati card

2008-07-02 Thread Owain Ainsworth
As a warning, the any X snapshot that hits a mirror around the time of this email (they're currently copying out) will contain an update to the radeon driver to 6.9.0. The r128 and mach64 drivers have been split out in this release, but the "ati" wrapper should take care of that. Now, there's some