On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Tom Horsley wrote: > 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). just to establish my street cred here, i invested several hours trying to help debug this craziness: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495208 and it's a bit maddening that all that effort produced nothing in the way of a method that allows me to get a working configuration at full resolution. i'm open to ideas but, AFAICT, nothing's changed since that bug report. argh. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday "Kernel Newbie Corner" column @ linux.com: http://cli.gs/WG6WYX ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
