On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:45:08AM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Callum Davies <calrog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm also not an X hacker but nv should use EXA since ~2007? > > "should"? No, not if you believe nv(4). "Can"? It would seem so. > "Does by default, or at least if XAA isn't available"? Doesn't seem > so. Setting > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > > might improve performance. Or it might crash and burn, given that it > hasn't been the default and is therefore probably undertested. >
AFAICT, EXA is only implemented for G80 chipsets in the nv driver. Older cards have lost acceleration since the removing of XAA in X server 1.4 which was imported into Xenocara on june 7. -- Matthieu Herrb
