Radeon KMS Gets Faster X-Video Support

[DanL]

What they really need to speed up is basic 2D accel. Still, any speed improvement with KMS is a good thing.

EXA is already relatively fast, and even my lowly RV710 runs Compiz smoothly.

[Melcar]

What they really need to speed up is basic 2D accel. Still, any speed improvement with KMS is a good thing.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon KMS Gets Faster X-Video Support

If using the latest ATI open-source driver Git code for kernel mode-setting, there may be slightly better X-Video support without any visual slowdowns/problems. Pauli Nieminen has changed around the code so that a video buffer is allocated in the GTT (Graphics Translation Table) to provide faster memory operations that haven't been accelerated by KMS. The patch that provides the performance boost to X-Video under ATI kernel mode-setting can be found on the xorg-driver-ati mailing list and has since been committed...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Nzk4NA