EXA distorts windows

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Sun Jun 24 23:38:32 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 10:31 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 13:06 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > It doesn't matter whan you start it, the point is that when it's
> > running, things should generally be faster with EXA than with XAA.
> 
> Does this apply to Intel graphics chips yet? For me things are MUCH
> slower with EXA - with and without a compositing manager.

Which chipset exactly? IME i915 and i945 are pretty smooth with current
master branches of xserver and xf86-video-intel, but Carl Worth recently
discovered inefficiencies in the i965 specific EXA driver code, and I'm
not sure about the status of i8xx.


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