Chris Ridd wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> I haven't seen any reports of poor nvidia performance, but poor ATI
>> performance has been reported by several Ferrari laptop users, and was
>> worked around by disabling the DRI module in xorg.conf.
>
> The dri module doesn't appear to be getting loaded anyway on this
> laptop, at least judging by the "LoadModule" lines in Xorg.0.log. Am I
> right in assuming that an unaccelerated driver (vgatext) is being used
> with this ATI card?
vgatext is the kernel driver for the text console, not the Xorg driver.
You should be using the ati/radeon Xorg drivers, which do have 2D acceleration.
> The dri module is definitely being loaded on the box with the Nvidia
> card though. I'll see about disabling that tomorrow.
Really? That would be a bug since there is no DRI support for nvidia
graphics, since their driver uses it's own methods.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
