2009/2/28 Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to>:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:25:18 -0500,
"Joshua C." <joshuacov(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> I was testing the latest xf86-video-radeon with f11 and the latest
> xorg-x11-server. And to my surprise the fedora version performs much
> worse than the vanilla code here:
Have you tried using nomodeset? Recently that works much better than when
KMS is used.
No, I didn't tried it. I just recompiled the drivers from source
without the patches and everything is perfect. KMS does work and it's
a way faster than the fedora driver. The recompile took about 1 min
(and extra time for pulling the deps) and it's really easy. I'm
wondering if the patches make the driver so bloated. One of them is
called something like ***-drm or ***-modeset. And I thought those have
already been merged in 6.11.0.
Actually dropping all the patched makes the driver work very well.