Pb driver ati + EXA + iceweasel

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:20 PM, giggzounet <giggzounet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

XAA is still supported and working, the driver just doesn't implement
the (rather useless) XAA render accel hooks.  Blits, fills, etc. are
still there though.

Alex


> 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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