Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (427 mails)

[Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Federico <federicotg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/5/8 Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Releases before 1.2.5 did not have acceleration support for r6xx/r7xx
> > cards so they always used shadowfb.  When EXA initialization fails the
> > driver falls back to no accel rather than shadowfb.
>
> This is a problem since DRM only works in the first X session. When
> you switch users (by using the fast user switch option or when the
> screen is locked by another user) you lose DRM and EXA.
>
> In my hardware (RS780) shadowfb was fast, but the current setup with
> no acceleration is almost like the vesa driver.
>
> Is there any chance the fallback is shadowfb? At least until DRM works
> with more than one X session.

It could be changed in the code if the fallback isn't shadowfb.

Alex
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