Bug#390271: Resizing and scrolling very slow with r200
On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 21:35 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:21:29AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 19:33 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > >
> > > I wonder if patching the server to automatically enable this when radeon is
> > > loaded until we have a good fix is worthwhile...
> >
> > It would be a big performance penalty for people using XAA but not a
> > compositing manager, i.e. probably the majority for some time to come.
>
> We could check for this too, right?
Check for what? Again, the driver doesn't have the necessary
information.
> Ideally though, just editing currently broken-for-EXA patch so
> that it's only on when XAA is enabled is probably a better hack.
Indeed.
> Fixing it so it actually worked with EXA would be even better, [...]
Not really, there shouldn't be any problem with offscreen pixmaps with
EXA.
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