Bug#467086: xserver-xorg-core: Bad performances with certain Xorg.conf options
severity 467086 normal
thank you
> Basically for weeks my computer has been kind of unusable while having Firefox or Konqueror open and I just realized why yesterday:
> I changed 2 options in my Xorg.conf and the perfomances have been back to normal.
>
> The options changed are:
> - Option "AccelMethod" from "EXA" to "XAA"
> - Nothing to Option "XAANoOffScreenPixmaps" "True"
>
> I am using a Radeon M9000 which is kind of dead so I underclock it, therefore no 3D acceleration is possible anymore and probably not much of 2D acceleration either....
>
So you want EXA (which is an 2D acceleration architecture) to be fast
without hardware acceleration? I doubt that'll work...
If XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps help, does it mean you are running Compiz or
another compositing manager such as kwin with fancy effects?
Brice
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