Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel Kasak
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:05 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > So anyway, I'm running ecomorph ( compiz port for E17 ), and most of the > > effects are very slow and jumpy. > > > > Try > > Option "AccelDFS" "true" > > Dave. Woah. OK that made things a lot better. It's still not perfect ( as per my

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thursday 26 March 2009 06:05:32 Dave Airlie wrote: > Option "AccelDFS" "true" Just out of curiosity, why is this needed? I thought compositing was mostly just texturing onto the root window back buffer and could mostly be done in h/w? -- Bill, also wondering why compositing seems to be slo

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 20:29 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:05 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> > >> Try > >> > >> Option "AccelDFS" "true" > > > > Any reason this kind of option isn't the default ? It seems

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Dave Airlie
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:05 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> >> Try >> >> Option "AccelDFS" "true" > > Any reason this kind of option isn't the default ? It seems xorg.conf is > mandatory for radeons just for the "don't suck" "true" optio

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Simon Thum
> I did a quick sysprof test while switching desktops, and it looks like > it's all in memcpy: > > miClearToBackground 0.00 77.45 > miPaintWindow 0.00 77.45 > ValidateGC

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:05 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > Try > > Option "AccelDFS" "true" Any reason this kind of option isn't the default ? It seems xorg.conf is mandatory for radeons just for the "don't suck" "true" options. Xav ___

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:15 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: > > So anyway, I'm running ecomorph ( compiz port for E17 ), and most of the > effects are very slow and jumpy. > > I did a quick sysprof test while switching desktops, and it looks like > it's all in memcpy: > > miClearToBackground

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-25 Thread Dave Airlie
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Hi all. > > I've brought an old r200 card out of retirement to bring some bling to > my work desktop. I was running xserver-1.5.something with an integrated > nvidia card. I did an upgrade to xserver-1.6, mesa-7.4-rc1 and > xf86-video-radeon-6

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Kasak
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 01:36 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > On 3/26/09, Daniel Kasak wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I've brought an old r200 card out of retirement to bring some bling to > > my work desktop. I was running xserver-1.5.something with an integrated > > nvidia card. I did an upgrade to xs

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-25 Thread Alex Deucher
On 3/26/09, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Hi all. > > I've brought an old r200 card out of retirement to bring some bling to > my work desktop. I was running xserver-1.5.something with an integrated > nvidia card. I did an upgrade to xserver-1.6, mesa-7.4-rc1 and > xf86-video-radeon-6.12.0. > > I don

r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Kasak
Hi all. I've brought an old r200 card out of retirement to bring some bling to my work desktop. I was running xserver-1.5.something with an integrated nvidia card. I did an upgrade to xserver-1.6, mesa-7.4-rc1 and xf86-video-radeon-6.12.0. I don't have any figures for previous software on this ha