It's slow both with XAA and EXA, both of which should surely be accelerating. xterms forced to use core fonts scroll *fast*. Everything else is as fast as usual as well.
I wonder if render acceleration has been broken in recent versions of the ATI driver and/or x11-xserver 1.5... it's something that was only ever implemented for r200 cards anyway, so it could have been broken without most people noticing.
Posted Feb 5, 2009 0:30 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Fixed! The X-server-to-be, 1.6, is blindingly fast at client-side font
scrolling: client-side fonts, even antialiased ones, are very nearly as
fast as core fonts in 1.5. The glyph cache in 1.6 is excellent.