r500 and flash = awful

[bugmenot]

Adobe's flash does not use hw acceleration on the open source drivers.

still the facts are that with stock jaunty drivers it consumed lots of cpu time but at least worked, now it's unusable, too much slow and choppy..

i did include a lot of random informations because i don't develop and i don't know how and if this could be useful..

[RealNC]

That's total crap. I can watch 1080p videos on mplayer with the X11 non-accelerated renderer. Flash on Linux is so much crap, it even lags with 480p videos. You don't need any kind of acceleration for this. But Flash is crap and can't even do that right.

Crap, crap, crap. Oh, did I mention how crap Flash on Linux is?

[tettamanti]

More details here:

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/05/flash_uses_the_gpu.html

[agd5f]

Adobe's flash does not use hw acceleration on the open source drivers.

[bugmenot]

card:
ati x1600 pro agp

kernel:
Linux 2.6.31-10-386 #30-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 8 14:28:09 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

glxinfo:
OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 (RV530 71C2) 20090101 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 7.7-devel

xorg log:

http://pastebin.com/f1f45ca4c

i'm using this on jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa and i shouldn't have kms enabled (didn't touch anything)

problem:
adobe flash performances are just awful, they decreased dramatically since i upgraded to this fresh git stuff, i.e. youtube is almost^W unusable (3ghz p4 cpu), everything else seems fine (didn't try any games or other stuff), with ubuntu jaunty's stock drivers everything (about flash) was better, even if it still sucked a bit though..

i didn't find a way to contact devs/packagers so i report my bug here


cheers

(sorry for bugmenot but i couldn't remember my account and i was in a hurry)