Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 00:12 UTC, submitted by rexstuff

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I wouldn't be complaining like this if I hadn't already spent time tweaking my drivers. EXA is now the default for the Radeon driver and I've been using it for years. I've even tweaked it further by changing the FBTexPercent option in xorg.conf, which actually improves 2d performance significantly, at the cost of 3d performance (which I don't really care about most of the time).
Again, KDE 3.5.10 and to a lesser extent GTK+ apps are all responsive and quickly drawn. It's only Qt4 and KDE4 apps that make me feel like I'm using drivers from 3 years ago.
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2009-08-05
Have you tried EXA?
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon