Hello Michel,

> My problem : I find 2D acceleration pretty poor. Despite I compiled
> a kernel without even sound drivers and with agpgart, when moving
> quickly a window (for instance, the gdm window after boot), the
> movement isn't smooth at all : it looks choppy. I tried everything
> (kernel, upgraded from XFree86 4.1.0 to 4.2.0, tried to optimise the
> XF86Config-4 file), but nothing to do : it is far to be as fast as
> under Win98 (sorry, I like playing 3D games). Remember, I'm talking
> about 2D acceleration, not 3D.
[...]
> Does someone have the solution (marvellous) or just want to help me?
> Are there special options for the ati drivers that increase speed ?
> Any answer would be very appreciated.

I had the same problem with my ATI Radeon SDR. Either pretty fast 2D
and no 3D-accel *or* sluggish (read as: you-can-watch-while-it-renders)
2D with decent 3D.

The solution was a new DRI/DRM kernel module directly from
http://dri.sourceforge.net/. I changed *nothing* of my XFree-4.1.0
installation, just dropped in the new kernel module. And *bang* --
pretty fast 2D *and* 3D. Although this was on FreeBSD, most of the
code for the kernel module is shared between Linux and FreeBSD, so
a newer kernel module should also be applicable for you.

-Bj�rn Fischer

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