r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

[Daniel Kasak]

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 01:36 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 3/26/09, Daniel Kasak <daniel.kasak at 247realmedia.com> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> >  I've brought an old r200 card out of retirement to bring some bling to
> >  my work desktop. I was running xserver-1.5.something with an integrated
> >  nvidia card. I did an upgrade to xserver-1.6, mesa-7.4-rc1 and
> >  xf86-video-radeon-6.12.0.
> >
> >  I don't have any figures for previous software on this hardware, but I
> >  can say that back when I was using this card at home on my old server,
> >  it used to *fly* - particularly after the exa-zero-copy-tfp landed. I
> >  certainly didn't get jumpiness or pauses like I'm getting now.
> >
> >  So anyway, I'm running ecomorph ( compiz port for E17 ), and most of the
> >  effects are very slow and jumpy.
> 
> Does adding a virtual line to the screen section of your config to
> limit the front buffer size help?
> Virtual 1280 1024
> 
> Alex

Hi Alex. Thanks for the quick response.

Unfortunately, no that doesn't seem to affect it at all.

xorg.conf which I forgot to attach last time:
http://entropy.homelinux.org/xorg.conf

Dan