Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (427 mails)

[Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Juergen Buchmueller
<pullmoll@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi devs,
> after upgrading to xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.5 it seems the screen to
> screen blits are awfully slow. Scrolling down a page in the webbrowser
> takes literally seconds - I can count the scanlines as they are
> shifting.
>
> EXA is enabled by an xorg.conf option.
>
> OS: NetBSD 5.0 amd64
> CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor stepping 03
> Mobo: Asus M3N78-EM, 2GB RAM
>
> I'm building packages from the NetBSD pkgsrc for myself, and it looks
> like I have to revert to 1.2.4 or earlier, or perhaps disable 2D
> "acceleration" ;-P
>
> Do you have any idea what could cause this tremendous slowdown? Some
> kind of blitter command queue stall?

Acceleration requires drm support on r6xx/r7xx hardware.  I'm not sure
if netbsd has radeon drm support yet.

Alex
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