Bug#697727: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: [radeon] Scrolling in xterm slow with KMS

["Tilo Schwarz" <tilo@tilo-schwarz.de>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:16:37 +0100, Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>  
wrote:

> On Mit, 2013-01-09 at 20:01 +0100, Tilo Schwarz wrote:
> > Indeed, using
> >
> > % grep ColorTiling /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >          Option          "ColorTiling"   "off"
> >
> > the scrolling is twice as fast as without this option (from 12sec down  
> > to
> > 6sec). That is still almost three times slower than without KMS, but
> > already much more usable!
>
> The better solution would be to configure your terminals to use
> fontconfig/Xft for text rendering.

Do you have a link to "the correct debian way" to enable fontconfig/Xft  
for text rendering? (Me being no X11 expert ...)

Is it a fontcontig and Xft, or is it a either fontcontig or Xft?

Thanks a alot!

	Tilo