On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM, John Stoffel
"Alex" == Alex Deucher
writes: Alex> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM, John Stoffel
wrote: >> "Dave" == Dave Witbrodt
writes: Also, when I lock my display, and kid seven year old switches users so he can play Super Mario Chronicles, the performance is terrible. Is this because user switching doesn't allow sharing of the Hardware for video acceleration? I seem to remember something about this, but Ican't find it in my old emails currently.
Alex> DRI1 only supports one accelerated instance. KMS/DRI2 supports Alex> multiple accelerated sessions.
So if I go with 2.6.32-rcN I should be all set? Or do I need to upgrade MESA, libdrm, etc as well?
You need xf86-video-ati and mesa with kms support and libdrm_radeon. I believe karmic has this already. if not, it's available via ppa. radeonhd doesn't support kms at the moment. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org