Joerg Lippmann writes:

I have tried them with my Radeon-6800.

Installation with rpm -Uhv *.rpm was easy. One has to fix some lines in one's XF86Config to provide for a xorg.conf (take a look at the readme) - easy, too.

A XF86Config should still be used as a fallback. At least it used to work when I added the code for the 6.7 release.

Xorg works, but I noticed a big difference in normal 2d-speed. Unfortunately, a difference in the wrong direction: many applications took *much* longer to start.

That's bad :-( I know that a lot of things have been changed at the driver to add render support. However this should not slow down application startup time. In fact application startup time has very little to do with 2d graphic performance.

I searched the net for xcompmgr and transset, compiled them and tried transparency and drop-shadows. Very nice to look at, but unbearably slow.

You may have to turn on accel support for the RENDER extension. I hope the radeon man page gives some hints on how to do this. Also you will have to enable the Composite extension if you haven't done so already. Unfortunately this has not been added to the xorg.conf man page. Egbert.