[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.6.2

Daniel Kasak dan at entropy.homelinux.org
Sun Aug 27 22:09:53 PDT 2006


Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 15:53 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
>   
>> Is there any word on exa support for r300 cards? I see there are quite a
>> few changes for the mach64, but I haven't had one of those is years!
>>     
>
> There is EXA support, just no Composite hook (for alpha blending) yet.
> IME it's still quite usable with AccelDFS and exa-damagetrack.
>   

Firstly, please don't take this as a complaint - just a report back.

I've just managed to install the exa-damagetrack branch and test it out.
I enabled the AccelDFS option ( though I read that this is enabled by
default on PCI Express cards, which I have ).
I'm still not really getting any better performance than with XAA. For
example, if I set a firefox window partly transparent, it takes about 7
seconds between rolling the mousewheel and the 1st scroll operation to
complete and render.

Dan



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