Accelerated rotation

[greg]

Is the new Intel driver (2.5.0) going to accelerate display rotation (like the radeon drivers)? I was really disappointed (again) to find out it didn't at least in the 2.4.x drivers.

[greg]

Any progress here? With 2.7.0, rotation or scaling still seem to completely disable any sort of acceleration (2D and 3D), so you're essentially back to just a framebuffer. This is so slow it's simply unusuable.

[whizse]

I only made a very quick test, but it seems to work okay for me.

Maybe you should file a bug report?

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html

[greg]

What exactly did you test and what's your platform? X and driver versions, IGP hardware used, etc.?

[whizse]

I'm using Debian unstable, 32-bit, with a G45.

Linux 2.6.29, xf86-video-intel 2.7, Xserver 1.6.0, Mesa 7.4. I'm using UXA but not KMS.

I mostly just played around by moving windows around, scrolling, zooming in and out in gplanarity (cairo based game) and briefly tried OpenArena.

[greg]

Thanks. I'm experiencing this on my netbook (GMA950) as well as another notebook (GMA965). I don't see any reason for why these older IGPs should be incapable of accelerating rotation, and according to other reports, it should work. I'll likely file a bug.
Maybe this bug is related: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20412