Performance change from X in Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 16:22 +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
> Roo [2006-07-09 15:15]:
> > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:21:11 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > 
> > > change gfx card (ati r200 for example has render accel (albeit a little
> > > buggy)),
> > 
> > See, this is what I don't understand. I thought the Matrox cards had
> > really good render extension acceleration. That's why I asked if version 7
> > has gone backwards and broken it... but I'm only an interested user not a
> > coder, so all I see is a system that just keeps getting slower and a
> > PC/gfx card that is 100% free software being dropped in favour of newer
> > cards with closed drivers.
> 
> MGA has XAA acceleration, [...]

Or at least it did until XAA was fixed to accelerate RENDER a little
more correctly. AFAICT still nobody has bothered to fix up the driver
for the new hooks, so it's probably not accelerated currently. Should be
easy enough to check in the log file.


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