10-50% CPU used by xorg?

Robert Lowery rglowery at exemail.com.au
Tue Feb 19 19:00:31 PST 2008


> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:47 +0100, Ben E. Hard wrote:
>
>> 113       0.6208  libexa.so                libexa.so
>
> EXA on Intel 830 systems is bound to be fantastically slow at the
> moment, particularly without a composite manager. We're waiting for LOTS
> of experimental stuff to land: the batchbuffer branch of the Intel
> driver, TTM, DRI2, etc, etc. Last word was that this wasn't happening
> any time soon, so in the meantime, force X to use XAA:
>
> Option      "AccelMethod" "xaa"

Given then above statements, should the default be set back to XAA in the
driver?




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