radeon EXA performance questions

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:52:25AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:14 -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:53:29AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > > That was only a slightly educated guess :)
> > > My Xorg.0.log reports Xserver 1.4.0.90, and radeon module 4.3.0.
> > > 
> > > If I get the time today, I'll try upgrading the Xorg in Debian
> > > unstable.
> > 
> > Debian unstable's versions were only marginally newer, reporting the
> > same version in Xorg.log.
> 
> Yeah, you'd have to wait for 1.5 (RCs) to enter experimental or try an
> upstream snapshot.

This is probably rather ungermaine at this point, but at some point in
the past week, aptitude pulled in an upgrade (1:6.8.0-1 -> 1:6.9.0-1)
that completely fixed this.

EXA is now substantially better than XAA for rendering blended pages
in Mozilla with no slowdown on redraws of large, overlapping
rectangles.

All is good!


-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross at kallisti.us

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