ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 (r250) and XRENDER - Dell D600

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 22:40 +0200, maciej.grela at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to run xcompmgr on this card with some reasonable 
> performance ? By this I mean not having to wait 1-2 seconds before a 
> new window appears watching sloooow fade-in animation. Switching 
> desktops, resizing or moving windows also is painfuly slow.

[...]

> (II) RADEON(0): Max desktop size set to 2048x1200
> (II) RADEON(0): For a larger or smaller max desktop size, add a Virtual line to your xorg.conf

[...]

> (II) RADEON(0): Allocating from a screen of 32768 kb
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 32 kb for hardware cursor 0 at offset 0x00672000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 32 kb for hardware cursor 1 at offset 0x00676000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 6600 kb for front buffer at offset 0x00000000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 6600 kb for back buffer at offset 0x0067a000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 6600 kb for depth buffer at offset 0x00cec000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 6464 kb for textures at offset 0x0135e000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 6472 kb for X Server offscreen at offset 0x019ae000

The EXA offscreen area may be too small. Does Option "FBTexPercent" "0"
or reducing the maximum desktop size with the Virtual directive help?


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