Google image search suckage

[CrystalCowboy]

Google changed their image search, and the performance on my Radeon HD4670 is absolutely pathetic. Scrolling down the page is excruciatingly slow.

[959690.935] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI RV730XT [Radeon HD 4670]


Fedora 13: 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.2-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.8.2-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-1.fc13.x86_64

I am running the default configuration, with no xorg.conf file. Are there any fixes in the pipeline which would address this, or any flags I can set to improve performance?

[RealNC]

Are you using KMS? That is indeed slow as molasses.

[agd5f]

KMS is fine here. Did you update any components (mesa, ddx, xserver, etc.) recently?

[RealNC]

KMS is fine here.

Too much CPU. It's quite OK with my Core 2 Duo. Try it on a low-end P4 and it's another story. It seems there's a lot that doesn't get handled by the GPU, and it seems it's worse with KMS when compared to UMS?

[oibaf]

I am having the same problem on a RV530. With OS X 10.6 it's a lot faster.

[CrystalCowboy]

I note that the problem does not appear in the Google Chrome browser, only in Firefox (currently 3.6.7)

I haven't tested any other browsers yet.

[agd5f]

I think you're seeing bug 27139. See:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27139

and the associated patches:

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2010-August/016827.html

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-August/012299.html

[Melcar]

Same here with a RS480. Google Image search is simply unusable.

[oibaf]

I tried the 6 radeon patches (downloaded from bug #27139) and Google image search is a lot faster now.

[oibaf]

Just FYI the radeon patches are now merged in current git.