Radeon R300: flash exposes terrible EXA performance

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Miguel Angel Alvarez
<maacruz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've found that lately flash video performance is terrible when using EXA, to
> the point of being a slideshow with 100% cpu usage. The only workaround to
> get decent performance has been to switch to old XAA acceleration.
>
> I have a R300 video card (ATI Radeon 9550). I've tested with Xorg 7.4 and Xorg
> 7.5, driver xf86-video-ati 6.13.1 and a late git build, in a opensuse linux
> system. I don't know if this affects other Radeon cards.
> Test site: megavideo.com
> Should I file a bug?

The set of patches here may help:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27139

Alex

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