On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:56:12 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > what's the story on video drivers these days? and why are they such > unmitigated trash? Because they decided to invent the DRI2 layer since the original DRI layer didn't actually work very well if you wanted to do something like run a opengl app in a desktop that also had desktop effects turned on, so basically everything got turned to trash due to the obsession with getting windows to shake like they are made of jello :-). On my system, I can get the radeon driver to work reasonably well if I switch the acceleration to XAA from EXA (despite the fact that the radeon man page claims XAA is the default, it apparently isn't). I suspect a year or two will see drivers that have reasonably stable DIR2 implementations, though I wonder if the performance will ever get back to where it used to be. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
