BERYL Response Times

[vehemens]

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 01:26:44 am Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 18:02 -0700, vehemens wrote:
> > I seeing BERYL window moves and cube rotation hesitation as much as
> > several seconds after running for several minutes.  Also after running
> > for 30 minutes or so, I see a significant increase in response delays.
> >
> > I've read that BERYL has some problems, but none mention this type of
> > runtime problem.
> >
> > The system is somewhat low end (XP 2100, 512MB, RADEON RV250), but it
> > doesn't appear to be a resource problem.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing this?  If not, what's your configuration?
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Unless you applied some patches floating around this mailing list, the
> radeon driver does not currently support AIGLX, which means that you are
> using the copy render path.  This is *much* slower than the normal
> texture_from_pixmap render path.  The one time I tried this, beryl
> performed exactly as you described.

I'm running xorg current with a patched DRM for an AIGLX initialization 
locking problem.

I'm able to select texture_from_pixmap in the BERYL menu.  Not sure what's 
being handled by GLX versus the driver.