On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 23:02 +0100, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > Are you using the same version of kde on both systems? IIRC kde 4 > > switched to using a1 surfaces for font rendering which isn't currently > > accelerated by EXA. Notice the _a1 fetch below. > I've seen quite many different reports about slow EXA which turned out > to be caused by the A1 mask format (I haven't seen anybody using A4). > > Wouldn't it be possible to re-direct A1 allocation to an A8 pixmap, > and convert at up- and downloading? > At least for text, where pixmaps can't be accessed anyway?
The EXA glyph cache code in the upcoming xserver 1.6 does precisely that when possible. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg