Moving this thread from the xorg list to the ATI driver list. Context: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-February/033007.html
Please remove the xorg list from CC on replies. also sprach Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.19.2007 +0100]: > > Yes, using XAA fixes this. Thanks, Michel. Do you know of a good > > piece of documentation to read to understand this? > > The problem is that EXA is falling back to software rendering for the > root window because its size exceeds the coordinate limits advertised by > the driver (the 3D engine used for RENDER acceleration is limited to > 2048 in each dimension). > > If you're interested in testing patches, it should be possible to handle > this more cleverly in the driver - the 2D engine used for window moves > can handle up to 8192 in each dimension. We should probably move this to > the xorg-driver-ati list for that purpose though. I am interested in testing patches if it helps you guys. I already have X set up with the ATI driver compiled from source from Git, so I am ready to go if you tell me which patches to try. -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ weapon, n.: an index of the lack of development of a culture. spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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