> It is not synthetic. It feels really sluggish in the shell compared to > 2.4... Also I have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled and now I do wonder that I did > not yet see a random crash - hmmhhh well except for a try to get > cryptoloop working. That was reliably crashing. > > Should I go for the old radeon driver ?!
No, same problem I'm sure. Just disable CONFIG_PREEMPT, and make sure you are using the kernel's AGP and DRI drivers (they do help for 2D on ATIs) Ben.
