Xorg 7.0-rc1 and EXA (radeon 9200)

[Torgeir Veimo]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:23 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 23:32 +0000, morgoth6 at box43.pl wrote:
> > 
> > > No, GNOME is usually snappy here, running xcompmgr -a.
> > 
> > Also any GTK+ apps are deam slow under KDE for example. Hmmm weird ... 
> 
> Indeed. BTW, I'm also using 2.12, GTK+ 2.8.6 and Cairo 1.0.2, so it
> doesn't seem to be either of these in general, unless we have different
> definitions of 'snappy' vs. 'dead slow' maybe... Have you tried
> disabling sub-pixel AA in GNOME to see if it makes more of a difference
> there than in KDE?

Am not sure if it is directly cairo related, but on my machine, running
in 16bpp is the only way to get DRI, but firefox 1.5.beta1/2 crashes a
lot under 16bpp. Using a higher bitdepth is not currently possible with
a radeon card with >= 16mb memory.


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Torgeir Veimo <torgeir at pobox.com>