Your experience with the new 2D acceleration so far

[mirv]

Haven't yet tried the cat 10.5's, but gave it a go with e17 and cat 10.4 - definitely an improvement. Still stick to e16 mostly, and that was already quick, so haven't noticed much of a difference there.

[monraaf]

Just tried it with 10.5. I've never seen such slow scrolling in gnome-terminal before

[Hans]

Have anyone tried the new 2d acceleration for fglrx 10.5? It has been released.

[PsynoKhi0]

You need for -vo gl or vaapi always vsync forced on with amdcccle.

Weird, I use both Smplayer with gl output and vlc with Xv without noticing much difference (a definite improvement over no D2D accel), though the vids I watch are at best 720p

[Kano]

You need for -vo gl or vaapi always vsync forced on with amdcccle.

[DivineGrace]

I dont get flickering in vids but I do get noticeable tearing. Makes cat unusable for me.

What program do you use to play vids?
I use mplayer for SD stuff and mplayer-vaapi for HD material, and notice flickering with every video. This is with every single cat release I have ever tried!

[bwat47]

I have almost the same setup here: integrated mobile HD2600, cat 10.4, debian squeeze amd64, gnome 2.28, but without compiz.

I wouldn't go as far as to say 2D is horrible in my case, but I agree with you on the firefox and minimizing windows. I have not really noticed any tearing on the desktop, but what irks me the most is flickering in videos, even with gpu accelerated va-api stuff.

I dont get flickering in vids but I do get noticeable tearing. Makes cat unusable for me.

[DivineGrace]

Horrible. Mobility 2600 cat 10.4, Lucid 10.04, gnome/compiz. Tearing is still bad, performance is the same (bad) as with d2d off. Some apps like firefox take a big performance hit scrolling and the minimize animation looks super choppy.

I have almost the same setup here: integrated mobile HD2600, cat 10.4, debian squeeze amd64, gnome 2.28, but without compiz.

I wouldn't go as far as to say 2D is horrible in my case, but I agree with you on the firefox and minimizing windows. I have not really noticed any tearing on the desktop, but what irks me the most is flickering in videos, even with gpu accelerated va-api stuff.

[bwat47]

Horrible. Mobility 2600 cat 10.4, Lucid 10.04, gnome/compiz. Tearing is still bad, performance is the same (bad) as with d2d off. Some apps like firefox take a big performance hit scrolling and the minimize animation looks super choppy.

[stancil]

Works great for me. Debian squeeze HD 4670 ; metacity (disabled compositing). Everything works like without Direct2D except of one thing. Netbeans IDE has sometimes drawing issues. I have then to restretch the IDE window. I guess the probleme is Java related, but dont know for sure.

What works:

xv video playback
browsing the web with firefox
watch tv with tvtime
play quakelive

If i turn on compositing i cant watch tv any longer. The window remains just black. Same goes for mplayer with xv acceleration -> gl or gl2 works. I dont know how to tell tvtime to not use xv. Window resizing has improved a lot compared to the previous acceleration architecture, but resizing firefox feels sluggish. It?s better than without Direct2D but not as smooth as windows.