Pb driver ati + EXA + iceweasel

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Tue Jun 17 11:11:53 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 20:03 +0200, giggz wrote:
> 
> I'm running under debian sid. So I just upgraded my system with the last
> release :
> 1:6.8.191-1
> 
> I have looked at my Xorg.log and I have seen that XAA is no more
> supported, 

Where did you see that? It's not true.

> So I change my xorg.conf with :
> 	Option		"AccelMethod"	"EXA"
> 
> I restart X server. So I don't have any message about XAA/EXA. All seem
> to work good. But if I run iceweasel (fork of firefox), the system is
> really slow, and X takes 100% off cpu to show me the google page...

The version of the X server you're using is probably too old for EXA to
be usable. So just keep using XAA if it works better for you, it's still
the default after all.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer           |          http://tungstengraphics.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer



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