Slow 2D with radeon KMS

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/30/2010 04:35 PM, Damien Mir wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried KMS with "radeon" driver, and 2D seems notably slow.
> Widgets takes time to draw, scrolling in Dolphin or Firefox lags, as if
> some 2D acceleration was not working alright.
>
> Used latest 2.6.33rc5 kernel + drm modules from :
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jobermayr/openSUSE_11.2/x86_64/
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.2/x86_64/
>
>
> Relevant xorg.log :
> http://88.191.15.45/RVRV/Xorg.0.log.kms
>
> Is this normal due to early state of development, or am I missing something?

It's normal.  Radeon KMS is still experimental even in 2.6.33rc kernels. 
At least the R600/R700 part of it, not sure about R500 and below.