Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Egbert Eich <eich@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Seife!

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:36:14PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Hi Egbert,
>
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:25:21 +0100
> Egbert Eich <eich@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I'm not sure, I have intel_agp loaded in the running system and it is
> used, so this might be the issue. (Even though I think something as
> trivial as intel_agp would not have escaped me... but you never
> know).
> Iwill try this again from init=bash once we get a new kernel for
> FACTORY (the 2.6.32 that's in there is soooo old, that there are
> hopefully tons of radeon fixes in 2.6.33 that surely will come soon ;)

Are you sure that intel_agp has been loaded before the radeon drm driver?

> I still hope that the abysmal 2D performance of radeon with RV350 will
> get a bit better with newer kernel drivers etc...

2D acceleration is still handled in user space. Only the functions which
send the commands down to the engine are in the kernel.


Cheers,
        Egbert.

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