On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > Mick wrote: >> >> BTW, the new xorg dri is reaaaaally slow. > > You need to enable EXA as acceleration type. And for that, you *need* an > xorg.conf. > > Section "Device" > Driver "radeon" > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > EndSection > > I believe the default is "XAA" which is slow. Also, with that driver, it > makes more sense to get the latest (~arch) along with ~arch DRI kernel > modules. The "unstable" ones (according to portage) are actually way more > stable and faster than the "stable" ones.
I just added that line on my laptop and now XFCE is much faster now. Thank you!
