RenderAccel bug?

[Gerben Wijnja]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 09:45, Erik Harrison wrote:
> Oh I've got the driver. Like I said, I was testing Composite under
> standard workloads using nvidia, nv, and vesa
> 
> To clarify what I am talking about, if I use
> 
> Option "RenderAccel" "true"
> 
> in xorg.conf, running the vesa or nv driver, resizing an xterm rapidly
> will hang, the display reproducible everytime, and cause a noticible
> slowdown with fadeouts.
> 
> I wasn't aware that RenderAccel was a nvidia specific option, but if
> so, shouldn't enabling it do nothing with other drivers?
> 
> -Erik
> 
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:21:46 +0200, Gerben Wijnja
> <mailinglists at gerbs.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 04:54, Erik Harrison wrote:
> > > I've been messing around finally with 6.8.0, testing the nvidia binary
> > > driver, the nv driver, and vesa with xcompmgr running.
> > >
> > > I don't know about whether or not nv supports RenderAccel, but with
> > > RenderAccel enabled on any of the three drivers, resizing xterms and
> > > gedit windows becomes very likely to freeze up the display quite
> > > quickly, Switching VTs and killing xcompmgr restores the display, and
> > > shows that hundreds of "error 3" messages have been dumped to the
> > > terminal.
> > >
> > > Running with RenderAccel on in nv and vesa makes fadeout slower than
> > > with it off. As closed or minimized apps are faded out, then the app
> > > seems to hang. Menus fading out is very slow. Disabling accell
> > > restores usable performance for fadeout.
> > >
> > > Slackware current w/ 2.6.7 kernel
> > > Abit Siluro (Nvidia 5200 chipset) 128 Megs
> > > Athlon XP 2400+
> > > ASUS A7N8x-Deluxe
> > > 512 MB of RAM.
> > 
> > As far as I know, "RenderAccel" is an option NVIDIA added for their own
> > driver, which is the "nvidia"-driver instead of the "nv"-driver. You can
> > get it at http://www.nvidia.com/linux.
> > 
> > Gerben
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

Yes, RenderAccel shouldn't make a difference with other drivers, unless
I'm wrong of course...
Resizing an xterm works perfectly here btw.