Performance change from X in Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5

[Roo]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:19:33 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 16:22 +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
>> Roo [2006-07-09 15:15]:
>> > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:21:11 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>> > 
>> > > change gfx card (ati r200 for example has render accel (albeit a
>> > > little buggy)),
>> > 
>> > See, this is what I don't understand. I thought the Matrox cards had
>> > really good render extension acceleration. That's why I asked if
>> > version 7 has gone backwards and broken it... but I'm only an
>> > interested user not a coder, so all I see is a system that just keeps
>> > getting slower and a PC/gfx card that is 100% free software being
>> > dropped in favour of newer cards with closed drivers.
>> 
>> MGA has XAA acceleration, [...]
> 
> Or at least it did until XAA was fixed to accelerate RENDER a little
> more correctly. AFAICT still nobody has bothered to fix up the driver
> for the new hooks, so it's probably not accelerated currently. Should be
> easy enough to check in the log file.

So is there an answer to this? Did nobody bother to fix up the MGA driver
or not?