[Clug-tech] problem with lagging effects in xorg

[Gustin Johnson]

On 10-05-27 02:37 PM, Greg R. Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've done a bit of research into this - I have a laptop with a mobility
> HD5870 and when I got it, I thought "wooo, everything should be soo fast",
> most things are fast, however with composite enabled the effects cause
> CPU spikes.
> 
> This is documented, and there are some fixes out there for it, as it
> effects
> many, many, video cards. Does anyone have any experience with this?
> every fix that I've tried has caused my xorg to become unresponsive on
>  startup such that I have to boot to single user mode to revert the
> changes.
> (I can't event ctl-alt out of it.). I think the patch is called the
> "backclear" patch.
> 
Are you using the radeonhd driver?

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