[arch-general] Radeonhd - Use EXA Accel instead of XAA Accel

[Andrei Thorp]

Huh, cool. Thanks for yet another useful bit of information :)

-AT

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:17 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>        If you use the radeonhd driver, use EXA acceleration instead of XAA. I just
> found out about this today and it is a 100% improvement in speed, etc. over
> XAA acceleration. It isn't as fast as fglrx, but it is a world of improvement
> over the alternative. To make use of EXA acceleration, simply enable it in
> your xorg.conf in the device section. Example:
>
> Section "Device"
>  BoardName    "RS690M"
>  Driver       "radeonhd"
>  Identifier   "Device[0]"
>  Option       "GARTSize" "256"
>  Option       "AccelMethod" "EXA"
>  Option       "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no"
>  Option       "VideoOverlay" "on"
>  Option       "no_dri" "no"
>  Option       "UseFastTLS" "1"
>  Option       "no_accel" "no"
>  Option       "mtrr" "off"
>  VendorName   "ATI"
> EndSection
>
>
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