DRI makes X slower (Re: radeondrm drm_attach error)

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:30:16AM -0400, Rafal Boni wrote:
> > vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x94c3 (rev. 0x00)
> > radeondrm0 at vga0error: [drm:pid0:drm_attach] *ERROR* pci_mapreg info for 
> > 36 failed
> > radeondrm0: Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080613
> 
> Ignore that error, it's harmless.


Ok, so I'm now running X11 with Option "DRI" enabled.  Many things (moving
windows around, scrolling in Firefox, ...) are a *lot* slower now than
before, and glxgears has about the same speed as before.

I suspect DRI broke 2D acceleration or something?

        Geert

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