Bug#589346: xorg: Graphical acceleration only available to one X user

[Alex Dănilă]

Enabling KMS solved this. Please close.

Thank you for the solution,
Alex
On 08/01/2010 01:57 AM, Alex Dănilă wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks, I understand.
> KMS is disabled on my computer because it breaks any rendering (Xorg 
> and virtual terminal). I guess I should first solve that...
>
> By Javascript I meant fancy animations on the web, I can tell you, 
> that does work terribly without acceleration.
>
> Alex
>
> On 07/17/2010 01:42 AM, Brice Goglin wrote:
>> Le 16/07/2010 22:19, Alex Dănilă a écrit :
>>> Package: xorg
>>> Version: 1:7.5+6
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Some types of acceleration are not availabe to the second simultaneous
>>> log-in on the machine. I only say some types,
>>> because some things work fast, others slow:
>>> Fast:
>>> -window resizing (both kwin and metacity)
>>> -Opera animations, drawing, javascript
>>> -KDE Plasma animations
>>> -video seems to work decently.
>>>
>>> Slow:
>>> -window moving (both kwin and metacity)
>>> -scrolling (Dolphin, Opera)
>>> -3d is much slower (TORCS: 5-15 fps on the first login, 0-1 fps on the
>>> second)
>>>
>>> Additionaly, Kwin compositing cannot be enabled on the second login,
>>> only on the first. Please ask for any
>>> information I failed to provide.
>>>
>>> Reproduce:
>>> -login to an desktop session
>>> -start a new desktop session without closing the first one, and notice
>>> the problems with this session.
>>>
>>> Video driver:
>>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.13.1-1
>>>
>>> This situation has been the same for a long time in Debian Unstable
>>> (more than a year), regardless of drm, mesa, kde version, xorg version.
>> In the past, DRI was only available to a single session. But with KMS
>> and modern stuff, it should work fine. Make sure you run KMS (which
>> means kernel at 2.6.32-5 from testing) and (if it doesn't) please send
>> your X log.
>>
>> Brice
>>
>> PS: javascript certainly has nothing to do with X :)
>>
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