[ltp] E145 with AMD A4 quad core experience?

Andrey Cherepivskiy linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 6 Jul 2014 18:54:55 +0400


On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Andrey Cherepivskiy
<kosmonavt.panchenko@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just tried the open source radeon driver. I run Gentoo x86_64.
> Kernel 3.15.3, X Server 1.15.0, xf86-video-ati 7.3.0, glamor 0.6.0.
>
> The good thing, glamor brought me xv and vdpau, thanks Alex.
>
> On the other hand, xterm now runs extremely slow, it takes a few
> seconds (!) to draw a screen full of text.
>

So the problem is extremely slow bitmap font rendering, which is
somehow related to glamor, I guess. I can't find any solution by now.

I also upgraded xf86-video-ati to 7.4.0. No difference.