Exa and radeon

[Eric Anholt]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:46 +0200, Francesco Biscani wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 22:36, Dario Laera wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > after I've installed xorg-server-7.1_RC1 I've tried to run xcompmgr -a
> > with exa to see if some things were improved since 7.0, but I still get
> > strange result:
> >
> > http://laera.web.cs.unibo.it/exa.png
> >
> > I have a mobility 9600 running on a powerbook.
> >
> > Thanks, Dario.
> 
> (I'm CC'ing Eric Anholt, since he's the man for exa)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> from what I gather following CVS logs you should add an extra option to 
> xorg.conf to enjoy the improved exa support in latest xorg:
> 
> Option      "MigrationHeuristic" "always"

This is definitely not recommended.  It's just for debugging.  That's
why it's undocumented.

> So, (that's a question for Eric ;) am I doing something wrong? Can I help in 
> debugging this?

This is probably just driver brokenness.  We're exercising the driver in
more ways than before, and I think radeon has issues.

-- 
Eric Anholt                     anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                 eric.anholt at intel.com
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