Exa acceleration renders my system unusable attaching screenshots to demonstrate problem. also http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129259 shows my original downstream bug listing.
Created attachment 5233 [details] exa corrupting gmails appearance
Created attachment 5234 [details] exa corrupting fluxbox
Created attachment 5235 [details] Xorg.conf exa is commented out in this version because it is my working version, however it was uncommented when I took the screenshots.
Does disabling fastwrite and/or lowering the AGP speed resolve your problem. Also, please post your xorg.log
Created attachment 5240 [details] My Xorg.0.log Also I commented out the agpfastwrite and agpmode for this run.
Does Option "ColorTiling" "off" make a difference? Please try xf86-video-ati CVS ati-1-0-branch, for both bugs you reported.
Ping to the bug submitter!
apologies my LUG is doing the computer room for Penguicon 4.0, and that's this weekend. I've been a bit busy I'll try to get to it (cvs) by monday. I've got "ColorTiling" "off" that may be helping but exa isn't on.
Created attachment 5484 [details] New Xorg.0.log This is the log from running #=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99.901-r1 #=x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.1 #=media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3 #=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.0
This log shows XAA being used.
Created attachment 5485 [details] Xorg.conf (In reply to comment #10) > This log shows XAA being used. in my overwhelming ignorance... that tells me what? I should remove it? how do I do that? I don't see anything about it in my xorg.conf (which I'm attaching again in case I've changed something).
You have to enable EXA explicitly with Option "AccelMethod" "EXA".
(In reply to comment #12) > You have to enable EXA explicitly with Option "AccelMethod" "EXA". that I knew. I take it EXA is replacing XAA. If X had started without it I would have. unfortunately X wouldn't start. I think it may have been evdev that failed to initialize. which is another place where I'm trying to iron out a bug. I'll try dropping evdev and see if I can get X to run with EXA.
Created attachment 5486 [details] another xorg.0.log well everything looks ok except for the fact that X is consuming 50%+ processor usage and causing sysem lag. It's also above noramal on memory consumption attaching an xorg.0.log to see if the cause of this lag can be determined.
You're saying the corruption with EXA is fixed? If so, please resolve this entry as FIXED. For other issues, please add to other entries or file new ones.
with a little experimentation to confirm the source of result's it seems setting colortiling to off fixed it. exa consumes an exoborant amount of cpu on my system rendering it nearly unusable, and definintely in a state where I wouldn't leave it on.
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