radeon problems with current cvs code

[Luca Dionisi]

On 3/28/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > At the moment it works, but xgl is slow with movies.
> > I saw this sentence in the suse site:
> >
> > Driver has neither pBuffer nor FBO support. When using a composite
> > manager all windows are rendered in software and only compositing is
> > hardware accelerated. Astonishingly, this works well enough for most
> > use cases.
> >
> > What does it mean? That is, is the driver _never_ going to have that support?
>
> It will, just no yet. It's beeing developped on intel chipsets at the
> moment and will probably be ported over at one point. I can't tell more
> precisely.
>

As far as you know, does the ATI binary driver have FBO support?
I didn't try it, yet, but should I try, may I expect better performance?
TIA
--Luca