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

[Eric Anholt]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:16 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 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").

Do you see any non-antialiased fonts on your window?  It looks like this
is what's killing us there, from my testing (and benh had previously
reported this for the case of his terminal).  I'm not sure how we want
to deal with this quite yet.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                     eta at lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/              anholt at FreeBSD.org
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