[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel-2.1.99

[Khashayar Naderehvandi]

On Nov 13, 2007 6:16 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:18 am Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:
> > With the git version, accelmethod defaults to EXA and most things seem to
> > work just fine. But I'm kind of doubtful about EXA as default. Windows
> > manipulation, compiz, etc., are snappy, but just scrolling in a browser
> > uses 100% cpu. Especially when running compiz at the same time, scrolling
> > text becomes painfully slow. Writing this email is really annoying as I
> > type notably faster than the characters appear on the screen.
> >
> > If this issue supposed to be fixed for the final 2.2 release? If not, I'd
> > suggest using XAA as default...
>
> Can you try using the "ExaNoComposite" option?  That may bring you back to
> XAA/noaccel performance levels.
>
> The reason for moving to EXA by default is that XAA simply can't support
> several of the features the driver has available, like a tiled frontbuffer or
> framebuffer compression.  Carl, Keith and Dave have been working on the
> performance problems, but they probably won't be fixed for this release.
>

I'm trying it now with ExaNoComposite and experience no improvement
whatsoever. I'm running 24bit and not 16. But as far as I can tell,
scrolling is horrible when running a composite manager such as compiz.
Not otherwise.

Here's hoping for continued improvements!

> Jesse
>
K.