Xgl and direct rendering

[Dimitar Toshev]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 16:39, morgoth6 at box43.pl wrote:
> Hell[o]
>
> > Have you applied the r200 copy-pixels patch[1] to your mesa
> > installation?
>
> To install Xgl I use the http://dev.gentoo.org/~hanno/ overlay and as I can
> see this patch is aplied to MESA on emerge.
>
>         epatch ${FILESDIR}/mesa-glx-x11-get-drawable-attribs-fix-1.diff
>         epatch ${FILESDIR}/mesa-glx-x11-texture-from-pixmap-1.patch
>         epatch ${FILESDIR}/r200-copy-pixels-1.patch
>
>         epatch ${FILESDIR}/makedepend-location.patch
>         epatch ${FILESDIR}/6.4-dont-install-gles-headers.patch
>         epatch ${FILESDIR}/change-default-dri-driver-dir.patch
>         epatch ${FILESDIR}/6.4-multilib-fix.patch
>
> > With that patch my Radeon 9000 can handle Xgl/Compiz pretty much ok.
> > With large windows on a resolution larger than 1024x768 it gets a bit
> > slow, though. Video playback is unusable slow and OpenGL doesn't work
> > but that's expected, as far as I know, as long as mesa/r200 doesn't
> > support pbuffers.
>
> Hmmmm, Xgl here is incredible slow. It's almost impossible to move any
> window :/
>
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For some reason that happens to me too, until I start a compositing manager. 
As long as I have a compositing manager running, everything is quite fast and 
responsive. This is really weird, though.

My machine: AthlonXP 2500+, 512MB DDR333 RAM, Radeon 9600 128MB.