[Clug-tech] problem with lagging effects in xorg

[Greg R. Smith]

On 10-05-27 04:54 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
> 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?
>
>    
I do not believe that it is supported, or I couldn't find any reference 
to it being supported.

I am using the ATI Catalyst driver.

--Greg