Bug#537964: video-radeon: Re: poor performance on rotated display

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

2010/1/18 Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>:
> On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 02:13 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
>> Version: 1:6.12.4-2
>> Severity: normal
>> File: video-radeon
>>
>>
>> The bug is back with the latest X server and radeon driver.
>> Worked with X 1.6.5 and radeon git20091121.
>
> [...]
>
>> (II) RADEON(0): XAA Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer. Please use EXA instead.

Perhaps it should use the supported method then?

>> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
>> (II) RADEON(0): num quad-pipes is 1
>> (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
>
> Rotation isn't (and probably won't ever be) accelerated with XAA. Try
> EXA.
>

I did not change my xorg.conf (and Debian hopefully does not do that
behind my back anymore) so it must be the default and it is different
from what I get with the git snapshots.

Thanks

Michal