radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 02/01/2010 08:23 PM, Brian Mury wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 08:51 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> I don't have access to and r600 or r700 based cards. I have a rv280 at
>> home and an rv530 at work and both do 3d currently.
> 
> I also have an rv280 that I have been having problems with. I'm curious
> if you are using kernel or user space mode setting, and what you have in
> your xorg.conf (if anything).

> My experience is:
> 
> KMS: 3D works but is slow, 2D is so slow it is unusable (can't even
> watch a low-def youtube video, for example).

Supposedly there is a known bug that with KMS on some chips, you can't
suspend.  I know, mine is one of them.  Since I turned it off with a
nomodeset, I can suspend my laptop again.  This is on F11.x86_64.

> UMS: 2D and 3D both work at expected speeds (XAA is a bit faster than
> the default EXA), but 3D often completely locks up the computer - can't
> even SSH to it. 
> 
> Brian

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