Flash performance on radeon driver (Fedora 11)

[Jerome Glisse]

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 10:38 +0100, planetf1 wrote:
> I'm seeing very poor flash performance on my i686 system running F11 
> (core duo 2.1Ghz 3Gb ram)
> 
> An old adobe blog has some discussion > 
> http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/05/flash_uses_the_gpu.html
> 
> Checking their stated requirements for:
> # GL_ARB_multitexture
> # GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
> # GL_ARB_shader_objects
> # GL_ARB_shading_language_100
> # GL_ARB_fragment_shader
> and
> client glx vendor string be something besides "SGI".
> not using compiz
> 
> Obviously radeon "fails" the last -- but that's incorrect of Adobe, and 
> hopefully something they've since fixed. Also I use compiz.. those 
> "requirements" can be discussed...!
> 
> But on the capabilities I had a look at my glxinfo and it appears I also 
> do not satisfy the last 3. Is this my configuration or something that 
> isn't yet supported in the driver.
> 

Isn't supported by the driver yet (no ETA), radeonhd won't change a
thing here as it uses the same mesa driver.

Cheers,
Jerome