On Jun 29 11:12:50, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:45:08AM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Callum Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I'm also not an X hacker but nv should use EXA since ~2007?
> >
> > "should"? No, not if you believe nv(4). "Can"? It would seem so.
> > "Does by default, or at least if XAA isn't available"? Doesn't seem
> > so. Setting
> > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> >
> > might improve performance. Or it might crash and burn, given that it
> > hasn't been the default and is therefore probably undertested.
> >
>
> AFAICT, EXA is only implemented for G80 chipsets in the nv driver.
> Older cards have lost acceleration since the removing of XAA in X
> server 1.4 which was imported into Xenocara on june 7.
Thank you for the insight.
Indeed, after beginning of June is about when I started noticing
the slowness. As was already mentioned, just another reason to
get rid of nvidia.
Jan
