Bug#523467: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: All draws are very slow after update to 1:6.12.2-1

[Alex Dănilă <nuorama@gmail.com>]

If anyone got in this situation and doesn't know how to downgrade (I 
don't), installing kernel 2.6.30 is a decent solution (I think it comes 
with in kernel video drivers).
Alex

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 15:38 +0200, Alex Dănilă wrote:
>   
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> > Version: 1:6.12.2-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > *** Please type your report below this line ***
> > Since today's update to unstable of the radeon driver drawing is very 
> > slow for everything:
> > -scrolling
> > -selecting text
> > -video
> > -show window from background, move, resize, change virtual desktop and 
> > even the KDM login menu takes a second to draw.
> >
> > Every redraw is visible, from the upper part of the screen to the lower 
> > part, except for games, where it appears only on portions of the window.
> >
> > The exact same thing happens when loading radeonhd.
> >     
>
> Please provide the output of:
> cat /proc/mtrr
> and
> dmesg|grep mtrr
>
> Thanks,
> Julien
>