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Old February 20th, 2010, 00:18
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I installed xfce 4.6.1 on FreeBSD x64_8.0 and the windows are being redrawn very slowly when moving or scrolling. The CPU usage is really high when doing something with the windows.

I found something that this could have with the option "composite extension" from the xfce faq and gentoohttp://wiki.xfce.org/faq http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p...73199582f201c9, so I disabled it in xorg.conf.

Unfortunately there were no changes.

I read that the radeonhd driver was slowhttp://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...er/209048.html should I switch driver?

Here are relevant parts of my xorg.conf
Code:
Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dri2"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"               # [<str>]
        #Option     "offscreensize"             # [<str>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ignoreconnector"           # [<str>]
        #Option     "forcereduced"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "forcedpi"                  # <i>
        #Option     "useconfiguredmonitor"      # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HPD"                       # <str>
        #Option     "NoRandr"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "RROutputOrder"             # [<str>]
        #Option     "DRI"                       # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVMode"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "ScaleType"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "UseAtomBIOS"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AtomBIOS"                  # [<str>]
        #Option     "UnverifiedFeatures"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Audio"                     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HDMI"                      # [<str>]
        #Option     "COHERENT"                  # [<str>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "radeonhd"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option      "DRI"
        Option      "AccelMethod" "exa"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
I used xmonad before and there were no such problems except that xmonad somehow crashed or locked. Then again with a tiling manager you don't move the windows and with my xmonad there was no fancy graphics.
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Old February 20th, 2010, 00:51
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Can you attach or pastebin your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file?

EDIT: Also, I would recommend the 'radeon' driver unless you need HDMI audio from the video card. And, finally, your xorg.conf file has this:

Code:
        Option      "DRI"
        Option      "AccelMethod" "exa"Section "Extensions"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
That's definitely wrong. Remove the 'Section "Extensions"'from the Option line.

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Can you attach or pastebin your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file?

EDIT: Also, I would recommend the 'radeon' driver unless you need HDMI audio from the video card. And, finally, your xorg.conf file has this:

Code:
        Option      "DRI"
        Option      "AccelMethod" "exa"Section "Extensions"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
That's definitely wrong. Remove the 'Section "Extensions"'from the Option line.

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The xorg.conf was just an error when I pasted it in this post.

It is fixed now i hope.
From what I can see there are no errors in xorg.0.log
Here it ishttp://pastebin.ca/1803238

I have tried different drivers with no effect and also variations with/withoud dri&exa
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Use x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati driver

Add WITHOUT_NOUVEAU=yes to /etc/make.conf

Update your installed software (# portmaster -aD)

Add

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Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection
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Well it is working fine now
except for the aiglx:

Code:
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/local/lib/dri/r600_dri.so failed (Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/dri/r600_dri.so")
The ati chooses the radeon driver, which I tried before without success.

I am still confused why it works now? (I had rebuilt the x-drivers just yesterday so it must be someting else??)

p.s. It is also working with radeonhd now.

Thanks!!!
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Well it is working fine now
except for the aiglx:

Code:
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/local/lib/dri/r600_dri.so failed (Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/dri/r600_dri.so")
The ati chooses the radeon driver, which I tried before without success.

I am still confused why it works now? (I had rebuilt the x-drivers just yesterday so it must be someting else??)

p.s. It is also working with radeonhd now.

Thanks!!!
Code:
> pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/dri/r600_dri.so 
/usr/local/lib/dri/r600_dri.so was installed by package dri-7.6.1,2
(for which see the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU bits of /usr/ports/UPDATING)
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