Xorg-6.8

[Mark Houlder]

Marc Schwartz wrote:

>>Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> I have not tried 6.8 as of yet, but I would not be surprised if there
> are issues with it, especially with composite enabled. There have been
> posts on the Fedora test list in just the past few days suggesting that
> there are notable performance issues with composite enabled due to the
> lack of acceleration at this point.
> 
> Presumably for those of us using non-FOSS drivers, we will have to wait
> for the vendors to release updates, much as I did with nVidia and the
> 2.6 kernels. We can then get a sense as to whether the issues are the
> existing HW drivers or xorg itself.
> 
> As one of the FC folks mentioned the other day, "They have our source,
> we don't have theirs"...  :-)
> 
> Marc

i managed to improve things by switching to the 2.6-kernel radeon 
driver; it's slower, but doesn't screw up the display; using the 
open-source version is preferable for me anyway as i don't need great 3d 
performance and i'd rather not rely on ati's binary rubbish (had trouble 
getting the kernel driver to work before or wouldn't have used the ati 
one anyway)

with the 'radeon' driver the virtual desktops work ok along with the 
composite stuff, but it's a bit slow - no surprise there :)

mark