Fedora ATi driver performs much worse than the vanilla code

[drago01]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/28 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:25:18 -0500,
>>  "Joshua C." <joshuacov at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> I was testing the latest xf86-video-radeon with f11 and the latest
>>> xorg-x11-server. And to my surprise the fedora version performs much
>>> worse than the vanilla code here:
>>
>> Have you tried using nomodeset? Recently that works much better than when
>> KMS is used.
>>
>
> No, I didn't tried it. I just recompiled the drivers from source
> without the patches and everything is perfect. KMS does work and it's
> a way faster than the fedora driver. The recompile took about 1 min
> (and extra time for pulling the deps) and it's really easy. I'm
> wondering if the patches make the driver so bloated. One of them is
> called something like ***-drm or ***-modeset. And I thought those have
> already been merged in 6.11.0.
>
> Actually dropping all the patched makes the driver work very well.

Then fill a bug please.