Bug#453279: xserver-xorg-video-intel: severe performance penalty with newer intel driver

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

forcemerge 452896 453279
thank you




Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>> Adding
>>    Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
>> to the Device section of xorg.conf should fix the problem.
>> Driver 2.2 now uses EXA by default. It is better in most cases, but not
>> in all cases yet unfortunately.
>>     
>
>   Thanks, it works perfectly now. Any way we could get this documented
> somewhere ? This is a non-trivial configuration change, after all.
>   

There's no real  need for some doc here, we just need the remaining
performance
issues in EXA to be fixed so that it is a sane default for everybody.

Brice