Xv, radeon-exa-16.diff and some observations

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/12/05, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de> wrote:
> I have tested the Xorg tree from last night right after the radeon EXA
> patch went in and things are working ok so far on my 9500pro card.
> The EXA enabled driver version seems to be slower though than the one in
> 6.8.2. What is the best way to benchmark this? Scrolling in Firefox for
> example is visibly slower and more "jerky" than in the 6.8.2 release which
> surprised me a bit (The logfile says that the driver is "Using EXA
> acceleration architecture").

try running with EXA with xcompmgr -a
Should make everything much smother.

Alex

> 
> Regards,
>    Dennis
> 
> Björn Nilsson wrote:
> > I just tested http://people.freedesktop.org/~anholt/radeon-exa-16.diff
> > and Xv is still not working for me. It is however different from patch
> > nr 15.
> >
> > With patch nr 15 i got garbled static mostly at the upper part of the
> > screen, now with nr 16 xine displays nothing just black, and no
> > static. If I swich to xshm, the video works but with worse picture
> > quality than normal it seems.
> >
> > In my test (x86) computer:
> > 9200SE AGP
> > 9200SE PCI (not used currently)
> >
> > Works great otherwise. Really nice to have no drawing artifacts when
> > moving windows anymore. Altough when resizing windows the windows and
> > desktop that is behind it gets messed up a little.
> >
> > One other small nag: when a window is minimized and I click in kicker
> > to bring it to the front I notice a small delay before it shows up.
> > This only happens when the window is minimized (using KDE desktop).
> >
> >
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