Yup, I can confirm that the "fix" of using debian packages does not solve the issue, I still get 100% cpu usage on all but the simplest opengl applications.
is the r300 driver known to provide compatible 3D acceleration on powerbooks on any OS with any version of mesa? -- DRI very slow on ATI Radeon 9600 on PowerPC https://launchpad.net/bugs/69607 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs