10-50% CPU used by xorg?

[Maarten Maathuis]

On 2/22/08, Johannes Engel <j-engel at gmx.de> wrote:
> Daniel Kasak wrote:
>  > *All* ATI users of r100, r200 & r300 cards should now be using EXA. The
>  > latest stable releases of xserver and xf86-video-ati provide
>  > zero-copy-texture-from-pixmap ( if you're using compiz or a
>  > derivative ), which makes things *very* fast. Also r100 and r200 owners
>  > get decent XRENDER acceleration.
>
> Using the new 6.8 driver gives render acceleration also for r300. :)

That support is limited to scaling and rotation, so it's not complete.
Only useful for a rotated screen imo.

>
>  Greetings, Johannes
>
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