[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel-2.1.99

[Khashayar Naderehvandi]

On Nov 19, 2007 2:49 PM, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 19:48 +0100, Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:
> > 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.
> > >
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> > 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.
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> Which versions of xserver and Mesa is that with?
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I'm using mesa 7.0.1, and xserer 1.4, FWIW.

Regards,
K.