How do I enable Glamor 2D acceleration on radeon

[mithion]

The title is pretty self explanatory. Since the ATI open source driver version 7.0 and 7.1, this driver now supports glamor 2D acceleration instead of the classics XAA and EXA . The only information about how to use this library that I could find dates from last summer, which predates the release of the 7.x driver version. The steps outlined said that the driver needed to be explicitely built with a flag enabling glamor, and then "AccelMethod" in xorg.conf needed to be set to "glamor".

What I'd like to know is with the new version of the driver, is this still necessary? Does the driver need to be rebuilt with explicit support for glamor? Do you still need to set AccelMethod to "glamor", or is glamor the new default if that option isn't explicitely specified? Any information is appreciated. I'm just surprised that support was added last fall and I can't seem to find updated documation on how to use this feature.

[lemonzest]

the driver needs to be rebuilt for glamor support

[mithion]

Does anybody know if there is any plan to include support for Glamor in Mageia 3, even as a option? Seems to me like it would be interesting to see the performance difference.

[mithion]

So I found a bug report concerning Glamor 2D. It appears that the implementation of glamor in mageia is currently pending. There are patches available, but they haven't been merged yet as they were found to be a bit unstable. So to answer my own question, glamor in mageia is currently still in the stage of DIY, but support for it will be implemented in the future.

[doktor5000]

For completeness's sake and also to allow others to follow up on that bug report, please also post the link to it here in the thread, thanks.

[mithion]

Sorry for the long delay. I'm not getting any notifications for responses to posts. But as requested, here's the bug report in question: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7717