Re: Firefox/Iceweasel 3: agony of the snail

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>]

* Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> [2008 Jul 20 13:02 -0500]:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:59:22 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> > Nope.
> > 
> >     $ grep -B1 -A4 'drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >     (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
> 
> [...]
> 
> >     (==) RADEON(0): Using XAA acceleration architecture
> >     (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
> >     (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
> > 
> > It sounds like others are OK too. The good news is that once you get
> > your X drivers straightened out, your entire UI experience will
> > probably improve dramatically.
> 
> OK, our mini-survey so far:
> 
> nvidia driver using nvidia's RenderAccel: fine (Hugo, Ron)
> radeon driver with XAA: fine (Bill)

I'm not seeing the IW problems and I'm using the Xorg radeon driver as
well:

$ grep -B1 -A4 'drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 4.3.0
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0
$ grep 'XAA' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(==) RADEON(0): Using XAA acceleration architecture
(II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
$

I'm also using IW3 on my T23 Thinkpad using the savage driver with no
speed issues.  I believe it also uses XAA.

- Nate >>

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