Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #132707
  2. Comment #91

Comment 91 for bug 132707

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Martin Emrich (emme) wrote :

I definitely "feel" a difference, especially with firefox, but also in the overall compiz performance. Now for the first time, my desktop not only looks good with compiz, but is also still usable (after all, the laptop has more juice than the first iBooks with MacOS X accelerated GUI *g*)

I get this from my Xorg log:

$ grep EXA /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(**) RADEON(0): Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
(**) RADEON(0): Using EXA acceleration architecture
(==) RADEON(0): Not using accelerated EXA DownloadFromScreen hook
(II) RADEON(0): Setting EXA maxPitchBytes
(II) EXA(0): Offscreen pixmap area of 56188928 bytes
(II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations: