radeon EXA performance questions

Simon Thum simon.thum at gmx.de
Tue Jul 29 14:37:51 PDT 2008


Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> This is probably rather ungermaine at this point, but at some point in
> the past week, aptitude pulled in an upgrade (1:6.8.0-1 -> 1:6.9.0-1)
> that completely fixed this.
> 
> EXA is now substantially better than XAA for rendering blended pages
> in Mozilla with no slowdown on redraws of large, overlapping
> rectangles.
> 
> All is good!
I agree in general, but with EXA I seldom experience complete drop-outs 
where not even the mouse cursor moves. Seldom (1 per 5-15 min or so, 
depending on whatever), but not present with XAA.

I use to recent git server/driver, EXA, R200.

Regards,

Simon



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