[Dri-users] Slow 2D

[James D. <JD...@ta...>]

Hello group,

I am having some issues with 2D performance under Red Hat 8 and
Red Hat 9 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500].
DRI is running per glxinfo and 3D performance is fine per
glxgears for this card.  The Radeon is in a 1.7Ghz P4 laptop
with 512 MB DDR ram.  I am using Gnome 2.2 and metacity for my
wm.  Metacity shows the contents of the windows while dragging
them around and this causes X to suck up CPU usage.  Another
big culprit is gnome-terminal, if I do ls -l /dev, X just
eats up to 60% CPU.  I don't know if this is a DRI problem
or maybe something with GTK-2.x and pango.  Anyway, are
there any options for XF86Config to help with 2D?  I added
these optoins to my XF86Config "Device" section:

    Option "AGPMode" "2"
    Option "AGPFastWrite" "on"
    Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"

And I was able to get about 200 fps more from glxgears.  Are there
any options that can help speed up this horrible 2D performance?
Are there any other 3D performance enhancing options as well?

Thanks,

Jim Drabb
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