Pb driver ati + EXA + iceweasel

giggzounet giggzounet at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 10:20:41 PDT 2008


Michel Dänzer a écrit :
> 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.
> 

Ok,
I just read the warning message in the xorg log :
(II) RADEON(0): XAA Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700
and newer. Please use EXA instead.
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled

Thx

>> 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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