Bug#575148: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: Everything is suddenly very slow

[Thue Janus Kristensen <thuejk@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:

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Thue Janus Kristensen <thuejk@gmail.com> (23/03/2010):

> > See the drm-related dmesg lines in your bugreport, that's probably

> > not helping: without working direct rendering, it's “““normal”””
> > to have a slow browser. :/
>
> Nonetheless, it worked before the last update.

I missed the fact you're running a severely outdated kernel, please
upgrade it and see how it goes. See details in:
 http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/19868.html

Yes, several months old. The horror! :)

Side note: Actually, for following the latest Kernel I have installed package linux-image-2.6-amd64, which in its description says
   This package depends on the latest Linux kernel 2.6 and modules
But right now it still depends on linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 in unstable.

I just upgraded to 2.6.32-4 manually, and it did not fix the slowness.

But thanks to Brice Goglin's help and the x.org HOWTO wiki I just got dual screen working with the radeon driver, so in principle I do not care any more :).

Regards, Thue